Marfa

I've never been to Marfa/Someday I'll go to Marfa

Tonight I landed POW right in a pot of jam.

GTT

Gone To Texas

Don't be scared. I've done this before.

I give you the watchword for the future: Enjoy Yourselves.

Mr. Antrobus

What a stroke of luck.

“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

György Ligeti

“It’s kickass or kissass, Don, and I’d be lying if I told you any different.”

I do not think that people are basically good at heart; indeed, that view of human nature has both prompted and informed my writing for the last 40 years. I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.

David Mamet

moon-eyed

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc) 21 51 From their seeing so clear as they do in a moon-shiny night, we used to call them moon-eyed

1790 J. WOLCOT Compl. Epist. to Bruce in Wks. (1812) II. 358 Moon-eyed Wonder opes her lap to thee.

1972 G. LUKAS et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 72 (stage direct.) Carol watches him, moon-eyed and obviously flipped about him.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 144/3 The apple-cheeked, moon-eyed wife of the governor, staggeringly poised, effortlessly articulate, primly silk-scarved.

1737 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/1 He sees two Moons, Merry, Middling, Moon-Ey'd, Muddled, [etc.].

1940 Amer. Speech 15 447/2 Sid gits moon-eyed every Saturday night.

Big Country

existential gunslingers

"I saw that each of my compañeros had likewise assumed a solitary station on the ridge, so that the four of us stood in a row and squinted into the desert like existential gunslingers."

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, 217

quicker than his own shadow: Lucky Luke

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland