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Monday, January 14, 2008
If It Ain’t Fixed, Don’t Broke It
Where’d you get a gun like this? he said. At the gittin place. Cormac McCarthy, ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992)
Where’d you get that pistol? she called. At the gettin place. Cormac McCarthy, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2005)
I'd say he was self-referencing ... it's not the kind of line you'd forget. Especially as it was in the All The Pretty Horses movie too ... Lucas Black stealing the show as Blevins. Cheers, Dec
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Did he just forget is he doing a Stephen King and referencing his own work?
I'd say he was self-referencing ... it's not the kind of line you'd forget. Especially as it was in the All The Pretty Horses movie too ... Lucas Black stealing the show as Blevins. Cheers, Dec
That's a typical Texas comment. I've heard it thousands of times over the course of my life.
It's one of my favourite lines, Bill ... I love that kind of deadpan delivery. Cheers, Dec
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