Eric Maas’s Reviews > Days Without End > Status Update

10. Picking up the dress act at Mr. Noone’s new place, where they left it. Older now, they won’t go back to being dance girls. A high class act for Thomas, whose effeminate presence is apparently so obvious that no one even thinks of doubting the plan. John Cole, though handsome, won’t try to pretend and note take the role as beau. Winona gets to play the part of daughter (like in real life).

His skin is made of the aftermaths of smiles. p123

The whole way on the spitting puffing cranking train Winona was sat upright and sleepless as if she were in the belly ofa demon and was soon to die.

9. Gun royalty
Despite the dramatic story ending with a more subjectively involved narrative, as I hoped for, and beautiful writing, I can’t help noticing I am losing interest in the Cowboy and Indian stories. Hope to find more connection to the previous books I read..

But a dying man can just say what he likes. It don’t have to be true.

8. Revenge attack. All adult Sioux are massacre and the children, after talking sense into the sergeant, are to be taken back to the fort. But chief Caught-His-Horse-First is still at large.

Now we might be celestial children out to rob the apples in the orchards of God, fearless, fearless, fearless.
Our sorrow spiralling to heaven. Our courage spiralling to heaven. Our disgrace entangled in it like sorrow and courage was so much briars.

7. Indians too go to ground; Caleb Booth the lucky man; Mrs. Lavinia Grady-Neale, Major’s bride; new trace of Caught-His-Horse-First.

I had in my days of being a girl considered the phrase ‘feminine mystery’ because I had been obliged to try to turn my hand to it. Here was the sockdolager of goddamned feminine mystery.