Status Updates From The Old Man and the Boy

so good

“Insanity runs its own peculiar way. Coon hunting is a very strong symptom. In a way it reminds me of what life’s like. You work and you fall down and you eat and you fight, and when it’s all over you feel awful foolish. Because, generally, you ain’t even got a coon to show for all the commotion.”

“This didn’t happen every day, or even every year, but once in a while it happened like that, and I mean to say that the walk up to where the dogs were painted against the side of a hill was the longest, happiest journey I ever took in my life.”

“There’s more ways to kill a cat than to choke it to death on butter” p. 159