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Picador edition, page 270, first full paragraph: the section beginning “I’ve read that...” should have been subject to the famous writer advice that we sometimes must “murder your darlings” [of sentences].
Rare to find a Heat-Moon clunker. This was one of them.
— Sep 30, 2020 10:19PM
Rare to find a Heat-Moon clunker. This was one of them.
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Howard Freeman
is on page 204 of 428
Heat Moon walks into a “cathouse” in Nevada for a beer and encounters a woman trying to sell her services.
He writes, “Tiffany, with all due respect, was one of the most facially unfavored women I’d ever seen. Her features would have been woeful on a man, but on a woman who earned her way by sexual attraction they were calamitous. She was a good dose of salt peter.”
— Aug 29, 2020 07:21AM
He writes, “Tiffany, with all due respect, was one of the most facially unfavored women I’d ever seen. Her features would have been woeful on a man, but on a woman who earned her way by sexual attraction they were calamitous. She was a good dose of salt peter.”
Howard Freeman
is on page 183 of 428
Hopi Indian to the author, “Maybe you know that Congress didn’t even admit Indians to citizenship until about nineteen twenty. Incredible — live someplace a thousand years and then find out you’re a foreigner.”
— Aug 20, 2020 07:51PM
Howard Freeman
is on page 76 of 428
He’s just passing through Ninety Six, SC, where he meets a National Parks Service employee named Rocky Durham at the old Loyalist fort. Rocky says that the feds will soon put pavement where dirt trails — 1,000 years old — are, so that “ladies in high heels and overweight men” can walk in, take a photo of themselves in front of something they don’t understand, and leave.
— May 03, 2020 10:54AM
