Malcolm X - Dialectical Journal No. TWENTY-SIX!

CHAPTER 9 ~ Page 136

Malcolm meets Laura again! :(

After telling of Laura, he says he regrets what he did and he claims responsibility for her downfall. You can tell his words are filled with such regret, however this meeting here, seems more... I don't know. You could say, routine? Casual? Malcolm has gone so low, as low as Laura that perhaps the melancholy of this paragraph indicates them as equals.

"I met Laura again. We were really glad to see each other. She was a lot more like me now, a good-time girl. We talked and laughed. She looked a lot older than she really was. She had no one man, she freelanced around. She had long since moved away from her grandmother. Laura told be she had finished school, but then she gave up the college idea. Laura was high whenever I saw her, now, too; we smoked some reefers together."

It's pretty simplistic, almost tiresome. Such sentences like "We talked and laughed." Very broad, vague, and elementary. Almost as if, it was wasn't him talking, but the high that both of them were consumed by. It's like "I met Laura again." is the main introductory sentence, then "We smoked some reefers together." is the last bit, with the rest of the paragraph being forced details with no real meaning to them as he likely had little interest. (Some, as she was a familiar face, but I doubt a lot.)