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Western
My favorite flavor of Western is revisionist; my second favorite flavor, spaghetti.
Unforgiven is the best Western of all time; don’t at me.
An acidic landscape, accelerated, unstructured. How long before no vestiges of wild country remain?
The Best Western motel chain began in California in the 40s, but can now be found all around the nation.
I really liked The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I could not stop thinking how all three of those guys needed to drink a lot more water. The sun above a red-hot poker, stoking greed, stoking wrath.
One of Custer’s many nicknames was Old Iron Butt.
Fistful of dollars, fistful of fists. The best revenge is not living well; it’s simply not wanting revenge to begin with.
“This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend,” said a minor character in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Entertaining for sure, but bad for democracy.
The noun meaning “a book or movie about the Old West” is first attested from 1909.
I like when a character lays his ear to the rail to listen for the heartbeat traversing the train tracks.
Bemused fatalism may be the most effective bravado.
The sun may be unforgiving because we are unforgivable.
According to Evan S. Connell, the early Mandans believed “there was not only a benevolent spirit but an evil spirit which came to earth before the good spirit and whose strength was greater.” Seems pretty accurate.
Abolish the Second Amendment.
For the notorious Mexican standoff scene in the cemetery, Leone told Morricone to compose a track “like the corpses were laughing from inside their tombs,” and that’s what it sounds like. It sounds exactly like that.
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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Her latest collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, has just been released by Texas Review Press and her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023.
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Mountain Chief, Blackfeet War Leader by Terrance Guardipee, Siksika (Blackfeet), 2008
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