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"It is a country and a time where any common laborer can become a famous outlaw, can be sainted in song and story into a Robin Hood, where a Frontier Model Excalibur can be drawn from the block at any gun shop for twenty dollars."

"Ah liberty, liberty, the sweetest of all things: freedom to possess one's body and soul, to be master of one's own days. Not many souls are fit for freedom. Most get bored, or nervous, or foolish. Let them have jobs, let such have their time allotted to them. But for the free soul liberty is essential, and a job is a thing to be contemplated with horror and hatred."

"Television reduces golf to a two-dimensional spectacle as skin-deep, finally, as a pornographic film; in its tendency to show golf as a series of putts that go in the hole or not, television presents a complicated, pleasurable activity stripped of foreplay, feeling, and the vast terrestrial and atmospheric context that corresponds, in this possibly overextended metaphor, to courtship."

Television reduces golf to a two-dimensional spectacle as skin-deep, finally, as a pornographic film; in its tendency to show golf as a series of putts that go in the hole or not, television presents a complicated, pleasurable activity stripped of foreplay, feeling, and the vast terrestrial and atmospheric context that corresponds, in this possibly overextended metaphor, to courtship.

"Meanwhile, back at the public courses, mayhem reigns."

"Tonight's The Night" was an LP recorded in audio verite, if you will, while completely intoxicated on Jose Cuervo tequila. We would not start recording until midnight, when we were so fucked up we could hardly walk."