Back to Blood – Tom Wolfe

Prologue: We een Mee-AH-mee Now

„SPEAK ENGLISH, YOU PATHETIC IDIOT! YOU’RE IN AMERICA NOW! SPEAK ENGLISH!“ … „No, mía malhablada puta gorda, we een Mee-ah-mee now! You een Mee-ah-mee now!“ (21)

1. The Man on the Mast

„OK u r a big latingo celebrity. Now what?“ (58)

2. The Hero’s Welcome

LAS SOMBRILLAS DE LIBERTAD (73)

3. The Daring Weak Man

People have such a colorful picture of newspaper reporters, … Yeah – and in real life they’re about as colorful as John Smith here. … They are the weak, and forever after they resented the strong. (117)

4. Magdalena

… she was a real piece of work. (135)

5. The pissing Monkey

You want them to know you possess that gorgeous blond, blue-eyed americano, that glamorous, famous Older Man! (157)

6. Skin

That was what she was by blood, an essentially French young woman of le monde, polished, brilliant, beautiful – then why did his eye fix upon those little fatty-fibrous mounds on either side of her nostrils? – … (185)

7. The Mattress

The americano had lost him the moment he mentioned Seagulls or whatever the artist’s name was … and Kandinsky and Malayvitch … (220)

8. The Columbus Day Regatta

BEAT thung BEAT thung BEAT thung BEAT thung – … THRUST hump THRUST thong thong thong thong … (278)

9. South Beach Outreach

Music … did Nestor hear a strum of music? … the thrum of an overture? (323)

10.The Super Bowl of the Art World

„See it – like it – buy it! That’s all you –  “ (330)

11. Ghislaine

::::::Oh, come on, Nestor! You’re acting like some thirteen-year-old who has just felt the first churning of all that stuff in his pelvic saddle. They’re nothing but a pair of legs – okay? … :::::: (375)

12. Jujitsu Justice

::::::Jesus Christ, Sarge, I hope to hell they don’t have you on video saying „jungle bunny.“:::::: (414)

13. A La Moda Cubana

„You’re like a virgin on a hill overlooking the Devil’s playground, Magdalena! “ (459)

14. Girls with Green Tails

… – at the Honey Pot, be blond no matter how  you get there! We’ll give you your Russian or Estonian name … (498)

15. The Yentas

„Took you only three months to get here,“ she said. „But maybe that’s what you Government people call ‚rapid response.‘“ (527)

16. Humiliation One

„What do you do to get food, to get clothes, to get someplace to sleep at night? What do you do?“ (560)

17. Humiliation, Too

Immediately she telepathed Amélia over the fiberfigmental chimericoptic connection she had left on all evening, „I told you! It depends, it depends!“ (598)

18. Na Zdrovia!

Hell, he couldn’t just loiter in the hallway could he … Goddamned Dio! … There was no other solution but to go down to the lobby of this Pan Am city hall and make make-believe phone calls. (616)

19. The Whore

He couldn’t get enough of her, which meant herself, too, her spirit, her uniqueness as a person, her soul. (626)

20. The Witness

Wasn’t hard to add up two and two, was it? (667)

21. The Knight of Hialeah

„SMITH, COME HERE!“ … „FEEL GUILTY ON YOUR OWN GODDAMNED TIME! YOU’RE WORKING FOR ME NOW, AND YOU’VE GOT A BIG STORY TO WRITE FOR TOMORROW!“ (691)