Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck

[countryjake]

2. Everbody Everywhere

"Well, maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then..."

Ma Joad: Then what, Tom?

"Then it don't matter. I'll be all around in the dark...I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look...whenever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Whenever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there... I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’ — I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry an’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build — why, I’ll be there."