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[proximoception]

So no one remembered the mules?

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Now I do

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Also I asked to friends at lunch yesterday. Their quick list:

Screaming horses.
Comanche massacre (the one I was thinking of too).
Thorn tree with impaled children (I had repressed).
The Judge making gunpowder (which one of them says Amy Hungerford derives from the gunpowder manufacture in book 6 of Paradise Lost).
The Judge sketching the ancient shin guard and then destroying it.
The Kid coming across corpse of Indian woman who turns to dust.
Buying, then shooting the puppies.

Re: Now I do

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

The Amy Hungerford lectures on the book are fun. And yes, the gunpowder part is one of the best parts.

[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

They are in YouTube btw for anyone interested.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for doing that. The baby bush and Comanches I figured would be mentioned, and the two jakeses. The Rev. Green scene is the most surprising omission after the mules.

I just read it and don't remember when horses were screaming.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Yes, thanks!

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

P. 117:

That night they sat at the fire like ghosts in their dusty beards and clothing, rapt, pyrolatrous. The fires died and small coals scampered down the plain and sand crept past in the dark all night like armies of lice on the move. In the night some of the horses began to scream and daybreak found several so crazed with snowblindness they required to be shot.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

A haunting concept once you realize you have no idea what it sounds like.

I suspect McCarthy remembered this....

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

"The screams of the horses were more terrible to hear than the cries of the men and women." --My Ántonia, Part I, chapter 8

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Some stuff in The Crossing reminded me of that wolf attack, so I bet you're right.