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Howard today my old sweetheart Clyde

brought him over

what

he's that joker outside

hey

Clyde won't you sit down no I can't stay

too long uh Bob and I are headed up to

Across the Flames yeah

Howard Howard you uh you want to meet

him you're right a friend

possibly

why don't you bring him up to the house

and I'll go get another job kids just

come out to the car Bob's

here are your grandmothers what did you

tell

truth foreign

I'll bring it by another time wait I'm

coming

howdy

uh Bob I'd like you to meet novel and

price Madeline this is Bob Howard also

known as Robert E Howard Bob's the

greatest Pope writer in the whole world

Cloud tells me you're right

I'll try

I haven't sold anything yet

you're going to Daniel Baker College

every other year I teach for my tuition

money

College

so what kind of Yarns do you ride

I've sent a couple stories to the

confession magazines I think the editor

meets them at the post office and throws

them right back in the return mail

it's tough getting started how'd you get

started

I had lots of other jobs none of them

any good

clerking in the stores got to be one of

the worst damn jobs a man can have

I decided the only way I could keep from

working was to start riding

that's working isn't it you damn right

it is

when I stay at home

I'm the boss typewriters the employee no

argument

do you practice

I read the magazines a lot for the pumps

yeah

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pay much

have to send a word mostly

so I stretch my Yarns

that's easy for me though I'm verbose I

got plenty of words

you try to write like the guys in the

magazines hell no let them try to write

like me

Bob's got a character going out called

Conan Conan's damn's bastard there ever

was

their tails publishes most of them

feel that how much are you will win the

bet what kind of magazines do you read

Smart Set cosmopolitan

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HL Mankins right

man it looks in the mirror because he's

shaving the face of God

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thank you

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thank you

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I've enjoyed meeting you guys

I look forward to it for a long time

thanks

I've enjoyed it too

you brought

bye

bye bye now

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good afternoon

hi as most of you know my name is Booth

Adams I'm the town mayor

of the time being

I take a great interest in Cross Plains

High we've got a great school and we're

going to have a great school year

as teachers are responsible not only for

the education of the children and

trusted into your care but for their

spiritual welfare as well

these children must have good examples

and teachers

or examples

now that is

Mrs Smith will be right with you

oh look they've got pecan pie

sorry ethyl the school board won't allow

us to have high that's enough noveling

understand that's Dr Howard

do you know Bob Howard I know Robert

Howard that's the one Robert Howard the

writer that's his daddy

does Bob ever come in here no he doesn't

I'll see him in the post office

sometimes well I've been told that he's

kind of odd you got that right

well I've met five

well I'll tell you one thing

friendly and the stories he rides well

well what well Dr Howard brought one in

one time it was filthy not something a

young lady do you have a telephone

it's right over there

over there

operator yes Howard residence please

I'll connect you

it's a novel in price I'm a new teacher

here in town is Bob there Robert

can you have him call me when he gets in

I'm boarding Mrs hemphills he can call

me there I'll tell him goodbye uh is he

still writing of course he is

oh well I'm interested in writing too so

uh

have you uh heard from that young man

you mean Robert Howard no

shy I hear

shy

I'm the one who's supposed to be shy and

I've called him about a zillion times

every single time his mother tells me oh

he's right and he can't come to the

phone or he's out of town but I'll tell

him you called

tell him you called

you know I bet she's never told him that

I called

I bet that's it

I'm sorry but that just makes me so damn

mad

oh God Ethel you've never said damn on a

Sunday

or no think of the children

do you see any children in here for me

to defile with my dams

good let's get going

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morning cousin Bill's not gonna take a

little ride after church would you like

to join us yeah

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yeah I'm sorry Ethel there's not room

for you maybe next time

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should you go running over to man's

house it's actually one who's not

returned any phone calls he's interested

in you know he doesn't want you

I'm only gonna ask Bob a question that's

all I'm not going to ask for his hand in

marriage and I'm not throwing myself at

him

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a very

various lock screen and there was a

sound of ripping silk as with one

ruthless wrench he tore off her skirt

oh

you're muriela so he was dancing girl

this crescent-shaped birthmark on your

thigh proves it

I saw it once when zaheba was whipping

a year ago I saw you in Africana with

that swine

I don't forget faces all women speaking

you know

a high I'd like to see Bob please

mom

yes I'd like to talk to Bob

mama somebody out here wants to see

Robert she can't can't she

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Goblin price

well Robert busy

hello

come in how you been hi fine

well come on in meet my folks

mother

this is novel and price

how do you do

how do you do

it's my dad how'd you do

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well I guess we'll go into the other

room

have seat have a seat

would you like something then go ahead

that's right I was just going to say

that I can't stay very long I've got

some people waiting for me in the car

we'll tell them to leave I'll take you

home with you hell yes

all right

be right back

you girls can go on bud says come take

me home

so what brought you over

writing I wanted to ask you a question

I'm still getting notes and rejection

slips oh

well everybody gets them I still get

them yeah but you sell

well man's got to make a living some way

I was riding when you knocked on the

door didn't you hear me

tell story

it's a hell of a noise ain't it

fine if I talk them out hear the words

yarn goes a little smoother oh so the

voice brings the words

you're absolutely right

absolutely

listen why I'll take you home now we

could ride around a while

Let's Ride

it's Brownwood Brownwood

I don't know I haven't been in months

you haven't

called last week you're not going to

tell

I could have misunderstood

that must be it I might have been

working right there and couldn't talk

my folks are pretty good about me

staying at home all the time

pool right there

that's it

bastard in this two-bit Town thinks I

ought to be out working

that's hard I'm a family

say the hell was what they think

what I'm writing I am working

you know that

you get to going on a yarn

I can't be disturbed

you just misunderstood

I'm sure I did

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it's pretty nice

yes ma'am

things are in the sear and yellow leaf

it's beautiful Harvest Moon

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for it

by all means I designed that especially

for you oh you knew I was coming over

you damn right I did

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I was going along with old Conan

suddenly you popped out of the

typewriter I said to myself Robert

Howard you big ugly lovers

there's the girls gonna appreciate your

moonlight

well girl

not many women that can appreciate a

thing like that

you're one in a million

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why are you telling me about your

character Conan

Conan

Conan is the damnedest bastard there

ever was

he's got a long black Mane of hair

crystal blue eyes

born on the battlefield

way alive

it's all he's ever known all he ever

wants to know

he's no Soldier he was taught to fight

yeah

like his legs his arms his chest is full

neck

believe me he don't take it from nobody

he'll fight man Beast devil or God

and when those women feel those tree

trunk firm arms around their waist

they melt like butter on a hot skillet

oh hell

I've been blabbing all night long

hey girl why don't you tell me to shut

up

let you talk for a while

tell me about teaching school

those kids ever give you any trouble

never

not they know it's good for him

I don't take it from nobody

and Beast

devil or stupid

I bet you don't

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know nothing

I want to ask you a question if it's

none of my business you tell me pretty

damn quick don't you worry I will

want to know about

you and Clyde

I was wondering if

well you might

still be carrying a torch for him

just be married in case you have

you're not heartbroken

strong heart

real good

now that's settled how about tomorrow

night

well I don't have a date for tomorrow

night well girl you got one now

I'll be by about seven okay

about that Moon

I'll order another one for you okay

sure do appreciate them

okay

yeah publish a call

from New York

but you out with that girl

what did he say

he wanted to know how your story was

going

if you're going to meet his deadline

did you say I would

it was foolish to think otherwise you

never missed a deadline that's right

hang on

they're thinking of using it for the

February cover story

as well they should

address

to a Mr Lovecraft

he said that he was a big fan of yours

and wanted to write you well ahp

Lovecraft

his name

the gentleman was from Rhode Island

yes did you say yes

hey you better hurry up he'll be here

any second calm down

he can wait

girl has to look her best on a first

date

he's here

oh

how do I look

just beautiful thanks

have a good time I will I hope

it's fun he's working hard as usual

great doctor pardon me

well I didn't know

at least thought you'd have on coat or

tie well I got on a clean white shirt by

God

I brought this for you you said you

wanted to read some of my stuff

brought this

it's called The Devil and iron

thank you I sure do want to read it

oh well I'll be there it is

sorry I didn't get all dressed up

I didn't think we'd go to a show or

anything I just thought we'd

drive around a while I'd shoot my mouth

off some more

there's one thing I'm good at that's

driving and blabbing

I got a pretty girl with me it makes it

that much better

story about the one that you gave me

devil and iron

but what do you think it's about

bullseye

evil Lord baits a trap for Conan on this

desolate Island

guess what debate is

four girl no I swear I didn't

cone

he finds this fantastic city which has

been mysteriously rebuilt overnight now

he Creeps in no no don't tell me

sounds exciting

Simon's my specialty

your specialty huh uh-huh that's right

excitement and adventure

that's what the readers want that's what

I give them

what kind of stories you've been writing

lately

Adventure bro

teaching school

I tried confession you got a lot to

confess it depends whether I write about

what I do or what I think about them

no luck fans still I'll get sent back

what was your last one about

it's a little hard to

hard it was called uh

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what would you say

sessions aren't those stories a little

bizarre

what's it called

I gave my daughter a movie Fame

that's it about

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I'm not going to tell you until you stop

laughing at me

a woman has an illegitimate child a

daughter

uh the child adopted by her aunt but the

mother can't give her up so she keeps

helping her in secret and

eventually

she helps

her become a movie star

very famous

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silly is it

is it I don't know a thing about

illegitimate daughters or

move the same

well I haven't seen any giant snakes or

big busted naked women frolicking

through the west Texas Hills lately

but I have

you look more closely next time

I try to write about people with

ordinary problems real people

no that's where we're different I write

about another age another way of life

man struggling to survive

that's my formula

well there's tiny farm houses where

I can't write about a man who tore Along

on a farm

drunk

beat up a wife and can't fight back

I can't write about hate like that

well just because you're poor and you

work hard doesn't mean you're hateful

you've lived a sheltered life

you don't know these people out here I

do

story cell

so people must want to read about muscle

man who rests on monsters and girls in

skimpy dresses who don't do a darn thing

but sit around and watch

oh

you stick with me girl I'll teach you

about Ryan

and man

although I was completely disappointed

by his appearance there was something

appealing about him maybe it was the way

he laughed at my story

he's asked me to go to the picture show

this Sunday I think I might go

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how's my Best gal

you ready to go you look great

yeah well

hat kind of bothers me

kind of had all to be wearing why not

well

you take those half Mexicans wear

sombreros there's a hat keep your son

off real good yeah

well are you ready

I like that perfume

sir

I hope you have your picture made for me

in that suit

this hat on yes with that hat on you

look very handsome

I got a weak chin you see our season

tonight I do not yes I do

my friend true he's got a really weird

chin one little Taffy be out cold

I mean mine's weak you take a hell of a

little knock me out

well do you know many people in

Brownwood

well

I know a few

know some girls you did

name one I might know

this girl foreign gal is Mina Dubai

name someone else

let's see

oh I know

most beautiful girl I've ever seen

who

Miss Delores of the House of dollars

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listen old Clyde and I were in World War

shopping

we saw the stunning girl

blonde hair sparkling eyes Flawless skin

that's right I just dropped dead bear in

the aisle

she walked like a queen

shoulders straight

Golden Hair bouncing down her back yeah

I've heard she was pretty most beautiful

girl I've ever seen

beautiful big big bosoms

this girl was she was the most beautiful

hey girl

hey hell you be careful with that that

thing is loaded

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Bob let's go you never know who you run

into around here now give it here

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he carried all the time no yes

you think it's just for Sundays look

here

see how dressed up I am I look like I

got a lot of money right well you live

like a million

suppose

we got a flap and I get out fixing some

Half Baked gunman drops by

gonna be ready to shoot first

oh I gotcha

this is dangerous part of Texas

it's Outlaws fragrance they're all here

yeah I got a gun

you do

yeah

you got it with you no I don't have it

with me

oh good I hate to try and kiss you

get shot

novel and look

only in Texas do you ever see a sunset

like that

girl

I hope you appreciate everything I've

done for you today

that's beautiful sunset

so myself

that crazy guy he is not crazy

he's a writer

and you're an English teacher you should

respect that

what he writes

I wouldn't touch one of those trash

magazines

he used his words beautifully you know

he read me one of his poems the other

day it was so nice

I may believe how he can right

that guy across the street

what on Earth is he doing

novel come here good look at this

come on

Now isn't that the strangest thing he

ever did see

what do you suppose he's doing

guess he thinks he's Max schnelling or

something

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something else

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hey Jesus God almost swallowed to you

yeah you sure did why aren't you

teaching school I am I'm on my lunch

break I just thought I'd say hi

you almost got a broken nose for your

trouble

just now

I got this

boxing yarn I've been thinking about

going in my hair

come with me I'm gonna show you

something

come on

because you're stomping ground huh for

now oh

how's that after school play come along

good we're gonna perform it real soon

you want to come see it

maybe if I'm not too busy still more

full I shall appear by the time I linger

here with one Fool's head I came to woo

but I go away with two sweet and Dew I

keep my oath patiently to Bear my rope

thank you

you ever directed any Shakespeare we do

a couple scenes in class but he's a

little bit heavy for this neck of the

woods

you know when I read his plays I can't

see that men have changed much since the

1500s men still hate other men well the

civilization we live in men become more

depraved and demonic all the time oh

it's not that bad girl

when they discovered oil and cross

planes you wouldn't believe this gun

that moved in here novelin I feeds

drunkers wife beaters sex deviants

not a piece of man of money

you're damn right here

it's the only one I know that's your

friend Clyde and your other friend

Truitt well you don't stick to the

subject you bring up a bunch of relevant

nonsense to keep yourself from seeing

the truth

maggots are corruption all around you

hospitals and schools

what hospitals and schools they heal

they teach you use them but you don't

give Society credit for them

oh we man made a hell of a mistake when

we sent women to college and gave you

the vote

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that's Beauty that's the kind of beauty

my ancestors love

novelin

do you think it's possible for a woman

to love just one man forever

I don't know

but you know this is the first time I've

ever talked about love in the middle of

a field

during a thunderstorm

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I'm in the mood to write a love story

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we're here

oh baby

this is Bob Howard

Bob's the writer I've been telling you

about Mama Mammy

howdy man nice to meet you

meet you too Mr Price welcome Bob

um take a seat okay

I understand you've been lending a hand

with noblins rotten hopes

well I've been holding it out but so far

she ain't took hold of it

true unless

I'll say Bob

Bing it out

I think novel should teach

that's what she's good at

well maybe I'll do both

well it doesn't work that way

hey something smells good in here

deeds in this house do not go

unreboarded yes thank you for bringing

novelist home Bob

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hello honey

how are you doing you feel all right

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my throat's a little sore

made home like

when will you be up and around

and I'm Bob I want you to come with me

sorry I can't go

I don't have time for some tea drinking

push and party

a bastard

you call me a bastard after everything

I've done for you

don't I wear a tie in that goddamn full

hat every time we go out

through my ride it would go to hell

if not sure it would you know how to

Rider if I wrote like you I've been

wasting my damn time scribbling down

conversations every Tom Dick and jackass

I met that ain't wrong that's copying

I still want you to go with me I crashed

I see those sons of in Hell

before I make one of their parties

you want to learn to be a writer I'll

show you what it takes

foreign

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thank you

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foreign

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this is

their novel

the French have one gift the ability to

Guild Decay and change the maggots of

corruption to the hummingbirds of poetry

as demonstrated by this volume

foreign

to book

Bob sent it to me

next time I see him I'm killing me

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in anywhere

and his eyes were like burning cold as

smart as he wouldn't he did not break

passion he'll beat down her guard she

step back

you have a phone call

hi it's me

novelin are you back no I'm still at

home Merry Christmas by the way

a Merry Christmas to you too

are you still mad at me

yes but not as much

what are you doing now

I'm coming over

Bob you don't have to

now you read that book no that book is

horrendous I can't imagine the fool who

wrote it

a fool

my Coney Yarns are full of sex

hell yeah

yeah that's what he did

drinking pouring fighting

what else they're doing life

I'm sorry but I don't see anything sexy

about a naked woman dancing around a

pirate ship

you don't no

well for God's sakes I mean she was

dancing the maintenance

I mean what could be more sexy than that

then what do you think would make a sexy

story

naked women aren't sexy what is it I

don't know naked men

the other way

you probably would

a few years ago

I had a hard time selling sex Yarns now

I gotta work double time just to keep up

with the market

before long

there won't be nothing held back sex

will infest everything books radio

newspapers

everything

hell yes

that's the way it was when Rome fell

rape and murder

took place on the stage

damn people loved it

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I'm sorry I can't commit my mother's

expecting her medicine I know

there's another Christmas present

I hope you don't stick this one under

the house

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foreign

mountains a few days ago beautiful

I believe that we carry around the lives

of our former ancestors

open our memories

you ever read something in history and

felt you knew it

maybe some event involved in India

oh yeah I have this Vision an Indian

girl gazing out over the Prairie all the

time

well ready to go

that's an ancestral memory

I don't understand why would I have

ancestral memories about Indians if

there are such things

remember

during the Christmas holidays

my mother saw you shopping

uh-huh

she asked me

if you had any Indian blood maybe as

much as happened

I wonder why she'd think that

shape your face

do you know how much Indian blood you

have none that I know of I bet you got a

drop or two

we are human because our ancestors were

human

that's one thing that persuades me the

Bible is right

and I can imagine a lot of things but I

can't imagine man was once a monkey

write a friend

Lovecraft

I did get something

the pouch

right down in the middle there

let's say that novelin he says that you

are the modern master of fantasy

well

better luck that makes it worthwhile to

be riding yeah

yeah it does

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next best thing to Texas sunsets the

Texas rang shower

one thing life does happen

simple thing but good things

he asked me spend too much time getting

them kids ready

you look worn out I'll be all right

well hell I've got to go out to Temple

at the end of the week when I was

Operation I Don't Need No Sick girl

around

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stay as long as I have to

thanks for the time you've given me

Nowlin

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I've enjoyed

every minute with you

knowing you

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well I look forward to having you back

don't wake up come on our dad wake up

how's Miss Howard

yep she's holding her own

Robert will be all right now

you've been sick too no only can

you really like my son don't you

bother me

Robert's real close yeah

his mother

we're all real close to our mothers

but we managed to get along without him

eventually we

do Robert's a stranger to me Miss price

he uh in his own little world most of

the time

I'm not privy to it

unlike you

this one went smooth as silk

hell I can write shoot em ups yeah I

gotta hankering to write something

bigger

yeah a novel Maybe

hey girl

let me walk ahead here what

you got to keep an eye out for

rattlesnakes rattlesnakes yes

don't worry I can handle reptiles

especially a giant Diamondback Rattlers

two foot fangs drifting oh yes oh

just joking that's enough

property you lead on

quiet

you can see the whole world from up here

and others as well

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there you are

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why don't you tell me about that novel

set in Texas

it's going to be about the hardships of

the early pioneers

and their conflict

the Indians who were trying to save the

land they loved

I figured it'd be the best damn book

ever written about frontier life it

sounds fascinating

I know what I can do

no one can write about this country

like I can

I'll be nasty to the Indians in this

novel thank you

I'll have this beautiful fully dressed

Indian girl

the hero will fall in love with her

he'll be this morose

ungainly Misfit among men

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thank you

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why can't he be handsome and kind

you're still a dreamer girl

come on

well to hell with it he'll be the most

handsome man in the west with the

fastest gun boom

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Boom the crust Almighty slow down girl

you were Mojave didn't have to shoot you

for wasting water

let's go for that

I can't help it that's the law of the

desert I swear why do I go out with you

got me there

as you out of high tailed it away from

me a long time ago you don't give

yourself enough credit

one of the qualities

is that so yeah like what

well

um

your thoughtfulness

your loyalty

your intelligence

you

imagination

that go on and on

you don't think a woman is attracted to

that you're mistaken

that's what I see

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I appreciate it girl

don't be fooled

kind of man needs to be free I can't be

tied down nope Road I walk I Walk Alone

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it's funny how women are attracting that

quality as well

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thank you

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foreign

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oh yeah here it is

thank you sir excuse me

hi did you say your name was Truett

Vincent yes ma'am

hi I'm Marlon price I believe we have a

mutual friend oh who's that Bob Howard

Bob really

how do you know Bob

well I teach in Cross Plains oh

you said you see a lot of Bob up there

in Cross Plains oh

you two weren't serious or anything oh

no no he's made it very clear to me many

times that he is not the Marion kind he

has to be free the road he walks he

walks alone yes

that's what he says

how often did you go to the movies yeah

anybody ever go by himself

picture with some wild action movie with

lots of sword fighting and stuff like

that you know

oh

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foreign

hey

what are you doing here I thought you

might like to take a ride

30 in the morning

I know

come on get dressed I got something

special to show you something you might

appreciate

so how's your summer been going okay

some rain about a week ago

yeah farmer sir needed it

I met to it

Cloud worked for the same company

poor fools of bookkeeper bushing papers

all day long it's a job you never catch

me doing

too long I ought to give my own heads of

cough so they don't want to go out on

prowl

what exactly do you do out on a crowd

drink beer and talk about girls

live albums more like it

that is serious

that's what we do

we argue planet

I want to rain cloud next sometimes he

makes me so mad

you ever read the vicar Wakefield did

you like it yes I did well that's too

damn bad I thought it was the sorriest

book I ever read

I wonder what you'd do if a student told

you that if you told me I didn't know

what I was talking about right well it

depends on exactly

the vicar was a lousy old bastard

the villain seducing

his daughters in the old food took it

piously no he had a sweet and generous

nature he prepares and then he repented

his mistakes we I thought you'd say that

they offer you a spoonful manure and you

gulp it on down what I know exactly what

you'd do if a kid disagreed

fall him out if he was being rude I

would but if we were just talking about

something

's like you that there's no room for

individual thought in schools today

really yeah

really

yeah that's right thanks indeed thank

God if it wasn't for teachers like me

there'd be more individuals like you

socially inept hate in the world

traveling off pompous ideas that nobody

wants to hear in the first place Bob

Howard if you do not text him initiative

you are going to end up a miserable old

man sitting at home with no friends and

no life and another thing don't you ever

ever imply that I do not know how to

teach because then you really are

talking about something that you know

nothing about now why don't you run on

home your mama's waiting for you

doubling getting the car

get in the goddamn car no

hell come on girl get in here

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I keep chasing you all day long

the goddamn car

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that's a damn one of us

guess who came by my house this morning

I know who Bob

wants me to go down to New Mexico with

him

yeah he does now

yeah I mentioned to him that we met at

the post office and we've been to the

movies a couple times what happened was

he mad no I don't think so

well true it either he was or he wasn't

Well he kind of ignored me he didn't say

a word

he didn't seem mad

he asked me if I'd read the vicar of

Wakefield

dear novel

the weather is good the beer is lousy

hoping you are the same

wow

dear Bob

Summers flying by as it always seems to

do where have you been I hope you're not

still mad at me if so I apologize let me

know the next time you'll be coming down

hopefully at a reasonable hour

love knowledge

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dear novel

thank you for the invitation to call

but you honestly can't expect me to

endure ridicule and contempt so much

that I'd come back for another dose

you understand me I think

but I'll make myself clear

you and Jewett haven't played fair with

me you can see on the fact that you were

going together both of you had plenty

opportunities to tell me but instead you

made a secret of it no doubt laughed at

me because of it taken advantage of a

friend's trust to try and make a fool of

him seems a poor Triumph

late I made a grave error in befriending

a pathetic man like yourself and I now

consider my association with you over

and finalized my only regret is the time

wasted spent in your company sincerely

novel and price

we'll say something

seem like such a nice mate

shame he won't be coming over anymore

mom what do you think

you said it and I tear it up

to that hateful letter I should

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go in the Friendship novelin he's been a

good friend

why don't you add another letter

say what you really want to say

dear Bob although you leave nothing for

me to say being a woman I'll say

something anyway during the time I went

with you I realized perfectly how you

felt about women Freedom was the first

law you recognized strangers it may say

my two demand my freedom I didn't think

you'd resort to middle class melodrama

and I can't believe that you really in

your heart feel that we've betrayed you

in my last letter I was of the opinion

that we were still friends and invited

you to call assuming that our friendship

would continue as it had in the past I

apologize for having made that mistake

please note that you will always have my

sincere wishes for your continued

success and happiness sincerely Madeline

price

Mr Howard Cohn

Dr Howard no Robert Howard

what'd he say he said it'd be overnight

did you want me to call back and confirm

no man

well I am going to call Mr Howard and

tell him where he can really go tonight

I am believe me straight to hell

howdy

hi Bob how you doing

bye

everything's fine

so what do you think of my buttermilk

catching

do you remember that Kipling yarn you

told me about yes

what was it that girl said

kissing a man

eating eggs without salt

you like the eggs with salt don't you

things at home

not good

my mother's getting weaker by the day

I could never repay her for all she's

done for me

well she's not

she's not going to be repaid

she believed in my riding from the

beginning she had faith

made her very proud Bob

but now you've got to lose your own life

I live my own life don't think for a

second I don't

I'm thirsty let's go into town made some

lemonade I want something more

substantial

you got something better to do

foreign

they find a city it's inhabited by two

tribes one's ruled by an evil sorcerer

drains the youth from Young new bile

women

in which the tribe sacrifices in an orig

ceremony

stripped naked

chained

it's a bloody altar

I would like to go home now

orgies and chained naked women my God

Bob oh hell you paid too much attention

to what people think

they don't feed you put clothes on your

back and what they think ain't worth a

damn that's right I

I'm here tonight

what

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this price imagine

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how about it nice

hey girl oh God Jesus girl wait up what

are you such a hurry for I have to be

somewhere

well I'll walk you home

heard you and two are saving lives these

days what yeah I heard you took some

people to the hospital after they've

been in an accident yeah that's true

yeah also here you took off your jacket

so nobody would bleed on it was my new

what pigskin jacket I didn't want to

ruin it

I've always said we're really in advance

in society when we're so well and to

save lives we don't want to endanger our

white pigskin Jack you make me sound

like a monster I'm not a mean person I

just didn't want somebody who wouldn't

really badly hurt bleeding all over my

new white pigskin jacket

he was hurt I

oh

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residents Miss price please

Bob

Q I didn't recognize your voice

hi how have you been good good hey would

you

showed tonight

well I've got an awful lot of work to do

tonight

come on I just took my suit out I'm all

dressed up

have you shaved that mustache

I need you in here

foreign

okay all right

here we go

here we go

come on okay yes yes

okay I'm setting you down now

okay

if you run away

both

okay

um

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on the okay there you go

okay

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there you go there you go there you go

are you going out with that little

Indian girl tonight

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My Best Girl

evening

where I like this forever

you're only too little to give

to give but here tonight server

for Life Love's Life to Live

the higher a man May travel the lower

may he fall

and then I must unravel

it was never meant for all

I'm gonna miss yourself

I'm gonna miss you

most of all

you ain't going nowhere

please stay with me

and tell your father

and bring that girl

around the house sometimes

I'd like to meet her again

so you made it huh I'm sorry

something came up

we're gonna miss our show

that's all right

we could drive around for a while if you

want okay that'd be good

that's what you've been up to

same old thing

students have been a little Restless

lately

oh yeah

well

when you're young you feel the lust for

adventure buried in your subconscience

you want to be

bothered with dreary things like school

I see

how's your mother

not well at all

I can't ride

or do anything

take care of her

what do you mean you can't write my

mother requires my constant care

he has these terrible nights which I

changed her down three times last night

that's not your job oh damn it you do

what needs to be done

I can't let her lay there wet and

uncomfortable why don't you hire a nurse

you've got the money you are not right

here

listen to me

I'm required to give up anything and do

whatever needs to be done not your wife

not your lovely lovely Bob

what's work

man can do any kind of work

ain't worth a damn

unless you do it for somebody you love

me I'm losing her damn it I know that

I want a woman to love a woman to

believe in me is that so much to ask

no it's not

and I'm sure you'll find one

you're an extraordinary man

if you don't love me say so

I know you loved me once

up here Bob

and you love joy

if you chew it you love say so

you God damn you

what

oh

I don't love anyone

I do love you but you weren't ready

well I don't know what I was talking

about

but there's other reasons too

we have all these differences and

they're going to be there the

differences can be overcome can't they

yeah

yeah it can

change your attitude

tell me that you'll get out once in a

while

and that you'll try to let go of your

mother

tell me that nail

I'm going to Louisiana State this summer

we make good with your right and then

I'm gonna make good with something too

I'm going to teach

you dedicate

yourself

kids and some

small apathetic town

what will you get out of it

not even a thank you

I'm not doing it to be saved

you've got a great cause

it's life worth living a man or a woman

gotta have great love or a great cause I

have neither

don't say nothing

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that's called the sweater you got there

a sweater

I'd be ready when I got there

hell I know you'd be ready

question is will they be ready for a

Spitfire like you

Texas Spitfires in Louisiana Spitfires

are two entirely different breeds

come on

get in I want to take you for a drive

suppose you were a lonely beautiful girl

you came out here

take in the sunset

while you were watching it

handsome Indian brave stepped out of

them trees

there

now what you do about it

would be the yarn that you'd write

see I can imagine the sunset and I could

see the Indian brave but that's as far

as I go that's where the story ends why

stop when it just gets interesting

top the next thing you know I'd be

telling them to wash off the war paint

through your clothes and accompany me a

Sunday School

something tells me he just wouldn't want

to do that

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when I saw that house

I thought about the Yarns that you write

your dream

dream that brought you over to my house

that day

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thanks for bringing me out here

and thanks for telling me what's wrong

with my stories

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well you're welcome

it's only my opinion you don't have to

listen to it if you don't want to I

I'd be a fool not to listen to the

greatest Pope writer in the whole wide

world

Robert E Howard

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that's right

thank you

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be sure to ride

my address or lockbox 313.

as soon as I get set

don't you get in any trouble those wild

ideas of yours

you run into any of that Voodoo you make

sure you find a Catholic hold up a cross

say a prayer for you

okay I will

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hey girl

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take a look at that Sunset I ordered for

you

I sure do appreciate it

foreign

foreign

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would never recover

y Robert looked at me

I went to his room and he began to type

a minute later our clean lady saw him

walk through the back door to his car

he said

he raised his arms and began praying

he hurt a shot

and so I am slumped over the steering

wheel

carried my boy back in his house

he lived

for eight hours

his mother passed away for the next day

thank you for the time you gave my son

this price

I know how much he cared for you

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five minute stop folks

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foreign

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a lot of crime

who are you crying for

a friend

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gone is it

that's gone yes

he took his own life

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that's tough

he was a writer

he makes living run stories

could Spin A Yarn good

that's what he called them

what's your name dear

let me ask you something lavaland

are you glad you had the chance to know

him

and even though you won't see him for a

while

is he still your friend

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he sure is

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look

it's gonna be a beautiful sunrise

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