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“No horror can be invented by a writer of fiction which has not already happened.”

Love is godmother to stupidity - Ray Bradbury “The Great Fire”

On pause. Had to return book to the library. Others have it on hold. Will resume when able.

“I’m wondering if you have, in all your travels, ever found, say, a suburban American housewife or a mother in a small Midwestern town beset with, well, a sort of animalesque quality? Perhaps she was more hairy than usual? Somewhat aggressive? Prone to bouts of howling?”

P. 146. - “He hadn’t meant to smell her, and hadn’t made any effort to, and yet the very night after it happened the first thing he remembered was that Mary had smelled different from any other wet thing he had ever smelled.”

McMurtry’s cowboys are as fragile and naive as the rest of us, creating a brilliant depiction of the changing landscape of masculinity.