Kidney disease capped Gary Coleman's growth at a just 4'8," but lack of stature didn't prevent him from becoming one of the most recognizable television talents of the 1970s. Famous for his catchphrase ("What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?"), Coleman charmed audiences as the adopted son o...
of the earth. These "Immortalia" are homely; they are imaginative; they are couched in the most vigorous of language; they are crude in literary form, oftentimes ; yet they are what people—just ordinary people, undistinguished and unknown,—have been thinking and saying and singing for their...