Monument Rock (Ss) (1998)
“Hunched in the saddle, I growled at the dark and peered through the blinding rain. The agony of my wound was a white-hot flame from the bullet of Korry Gleason.
Dead in the corral at Seaton's he was, and a blessed good thing for the country, too, although had I gone down instead, the gain would have been as great and the loss no greater. Wherever he went, in whatever afterlife there may be for the Korry Gleasons of this world, he'll carry the knowledge that he paid his score for the killing of old Bags Robison that night in Animas.
He'd been so sure, Gleason had, that Race Mallin had bucked it out in gun smoke down Big Band way. He'd heard the rumor all right, so he thought it safe to kill old Bags, and he'd nothing on his mind when he walked, sloshing through the mud toward Seaton's-and then he saw me.
He knew right off, no doubt about that. He knew before he saw my face. He knew even before I spoke. "Goodbye, Korry," I said.
But the lightning flashed as I spoke and he saw me standin...g there, a big, lean-bodied man wearing no slicker and guns ready to hand.MoreLess
Dead in the corral at Seaton's he was, and a blessed good thing for the country, too, although had I gone down instead, the gain would have been as great and the loss no greater. Wherever he went, in whatever afterlife there may be for the Korry Gleasons of this world, he'll carry the knowledge that he paid his score for the killing of old Bags Robison that night in Animas.
He'd been so sure, Gleason had, that Race Mallin had bucked it out in gun smoke down Big Band way. He'd heard the rumor all right, so he thought it safe to kill old Bags, and he'd nothing on his mind when he walked, sloshing through the mud toward Seaton's-and then he saw me.
He knew right off, no doubt about that. He knew before he saw my face. He knew even before I spoke. "Goodbye, Korry," I said.
But the lightning flashed as I spoke and he saw me standin...g there, a big, lean-bodied man wearing no slicker and guns ready to hand.MoreLess
Guest 2 years ago
Proving a good story. But...L'amour has touted himself as havingbeen a professional boxer with 61 fights, winning 59, so he should know something about boxing terms. The above description of Kilkenny and Mailer shows differently. He says that Mailer having taken quite a few Kilkenny punches was "punch drunk". This is a term used in boxing ONLY when old baxers, having absorbed huge punishment and blows to the head during their CAREERS , lose their wits, become incoherent, in other words have brain damage....often Parkinson's SYNDROME, but not Parkinson's itself. A different ailment with similar outward effect.Write Review:
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