Horse Heaven (2011)
“Even if it got hot, which wasn’t very often, thought Buddy, the trees were so large and shady that you were inspired with thoughts of earlier, pre-air-conditioning times, and were led to believe that you could not only endure but thrive on the heat, become one of those nineteenth-century men, like Colonel Bradley, who raced Man O’ War, men who had fewer conveniences but more energy, less education but more intelligence, and shorter lives but longer days than poor late-twentieth-century sinners ...like himself. Saratoga was the one place he’d been to lately that didn’t make Buddy Crawford wish he were dead.
Buddy distinguished this wish from a desire to commit suicide, which he had none of, because he was not a depressed sort of guy and never had been. He was an angry sort of guy, and always had been, and Jesus fully understood that, and, you might say, even sympathized with that, because hadn’t he himself gotten mad at that tree, whatever it was, that didn’t fruit out or something when he ordered it to?MoreLess
Buddy distinguished this wish from a desire to commit suicide, which he had none of, because he was not a depressed sort of guy and never had been. He was an angry sort of guy, and always had been, and Jesus fully understood that, and, you might say, even sympathized with that, because hadn’t he himself gotten mad at that tree, whatever it was, that didn’t fruit out or something when he ordered it to?MoreLess
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