 | Willie Lee Rose - History - 1982 - 241 pages
...words of the grandfather in his deathbed scene from Ralph Ellison's remarkable book, The Invisible Man: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open."19 If that isn't resistance, one may well ask, "What is?" 48 4 The Old Allegiance This... | |
 | Geneva Smitherman - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 284 pages
...my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open. (p. 16) Thomas's skillful evasion and deflection of questions regarding his judicial... | |
 | Ralph Ellison - Literary Collections - 1995 - 436 pages
...a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with you head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men.... | |
 | Regina Taylor - Drama - 1995 - 76 pages
...traitor all my bom days. A spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up the gun in reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome them with yesses, undermine them with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction. Let them swaller you... | |
 | Deepika Bahri, Mary Vasudeva - History - 2009 - 392 pages
...offered on his deathbed by the narrator's grandfather to his immediate family in Ellison's Invisible Man: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." In facing such challenges of strategy and identity — as Ellison's young protagonist... | |
 | Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf - American literature - 1997 - 608 pages
...my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men.... | |
 | Will Kaufman - Humor - 1997 - 284 pages
...the darky act in the first place. Hence the exploration of the act in Ellison's own Invisible Man: "'I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open'"; and hence the historical fact that the most popular American comic figure in the... | |
 | Gregory S. Jay - Education - 1997 - 260 pages
...narrator gives this final gloss to his grandfather's deathbed injunction to "overcome 'em [whites] with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction" (16): Could he have meant — hell, he must have meant the principle, that we were to affirm the principle... | |
 | Charles W. Mills - Philosophy - 1998 - 280 pages
..."Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war. ... I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction."28 Finally, psychological obstacles ("hot" mechanisms) stand in the way of acceptance... | |
 | Gregory Stephens - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 348 pages
...born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction ... I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em...destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open. (16) IM's parents were "alarmed" by these words. "I was warned emphatically to forget... | |
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I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight. I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth.... 
