Prose Galleries
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Prose by Carmine J. Scarpa
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of
insignificance from the door.
                                                 -Saul Bellow
These Prose Galleries contain early draft excerpts from
"Save Me a Seat by the Drummer," Carmine J. Scarpa's
memoir of childhood and youth.

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Prose Gallery One (preface, Catholic school and punishment)
Prose Gallery Two (A. Harry Moore School and girls)
Prose Gallery Three (disability, Sinatra, a shared bathroom, and my parents)
Prose Gallery Four (embarrassment)
Prose Gallery Five (friends, vegetarianism, and career choice)
Prose Gallery Six (advertisements, China, eighth-grade autograph book, The Beatles, and truancy)
Prose Gallery Seven (boxing, Linda, and 1085 Summit Avenue)
Prose Gallery Eight ("the bomb," school friends, and postscript)
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