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The Allure Of Montana Is Like A Commitment To A Narcotic; You Can Never Use It Up Or Get Enough Of It. Its Wilderness Areas Probably Resemble The Earth On The First Day Of Creation.

The Story Of Ulysses And Agamemnon And Menelaus, Of Jesus, Of The Good Knight Of Chaucer, Lives In Every One Of Us.

When People Make A Contract With The Devil And Give Him An Air-conditioned Office To Work In, He Doesn't Go Back Home Easily.

It Has Been My Experience That Most Human Stories Are Circular Rather Than Linear. Regardless Of The Path We Choose, We Somehow End Up Where We Commenced - In Part, I Suspect, Because The Child Who Lives In Us Goes Along For The Ride.

I Think The "crime Novel" Has Replaced The Sociological Novel Of The 1930s. I Think The Progenitor Of That Tradition Is James M. Cain, Who In My View Is The Most Neglected Writer In American Literature.