Rating

★★★★★

Category

literature

Read

2021-06-15

Pages

246

Exceptionally well done.

Afterward, Rat said, ‘So where’s the rain?’ and Kiowa said, ‘The earth is slow, but the buffalo is patient,’ and Rat thought about it and said, ‘Yeah, but where’s the rain?’

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.