Watch your back! You might be old someday. Consider this dialogue from Cormac McCarty’s novel, No Country for Old Men:
Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference in Corpus Christi and I got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talking about the right wing this and the right wing that.
I aint even sure what she meant by it. The people I know are mostly just common people. Common as dirt, as the sayin goes. I told her that and she looked at me funny. She thought I was sayin something bad about em, but of course that’s a high compliment in my part of the world. She kept on, kept on.
Finally told me, said: I don’t like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I don’t think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I don’t have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.
Sweet dreams!
February 6, 2008 at 7:08 pm
not commenting on the post… but I see you link to Robert E. Lee through “Leaders of Yesteryear”.
If I told you I was related to him… would that make us friends? Just wondering.
February 7, 2008 at 8:04 am
Suzanne, of course. Any relative of the general would certainly be afriend of mine. How are you related? What part of the country do you live in?
February 8, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Great quote. And sad.
February 14, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Not sure how the relations go, but my aunt is real into genealogy and traced it back somehow- my father’s side. Yes, this is all very vague.
St. Louis.