He sipped the coffee. It was weak and bitter and tasted like it had been brewed from grounds that had already given their best to yesterday’s pot. A man doesn’t refuse hospitality in a strange town, even when the hospitality tastes like it was scraped off the bottom of a cookstove.”
–Buck Corrigan (The Ghost of the Galiuro)
Home, sure it’ll be good to be back home again. The wheels on this ol’ steel mount jest keep a-rollin’ down the black asphalt of the highway. And, pard, there’ a word I’ll leave with yuh, then back to the road. It comes from that ol’ puncher Eugene Manlove Rhodes. “Rhomboidinaltitudinous isosohedronal catawampus!” and as far as I can tell it means someone who has to be a-drinkin’ motel coffee on the road.
What was it ol’ Jansky said, “We’re lost, but we’re makin’ good time”? Nah, we’re not lost, but yuh know there are plenty of folk out there who are completely lost and undone in this ol’ world, but they’re a-makin’ good time on their way to perdition.
I’ll be arrivin’ soon, but in the meantime be ridin’ tall in the saddle, stay alert and ready, and be sure an’ check yur cinch. I want to see yuh all in one piece the next time yuh come around. We’re travelin’ the road with the Lord by our side, yuh be doin’ the same.
Vaya con Dios.
Home, sure it’ll be good to be back home again. The wheels on this ol’ steel mount jest keep a-rollin’ down the black asphalt of the highway. And, pard, there’ a word I’ll leave with yuh, then back to the road. It comes from that ol’ puncher Eugene Manlove Rhodes. “Rhomboidinaltitudinous isosohedronal catawampus!” and as far as I can tell it means someone who has to be a-drinkin’ motel coffee on the road.
What was it ol’ Jansky said, “We’re lost, but we’re makin’ good time”? Nah, we’re not lost, but yuh know there are plenty of folk out there who are completely lost and undone in this ol’ world, but they’re a-makin’ good time on their way to perdition.
I’ll be arrivin’ soon, but in the meantime be ridin’ tall in the saddle, stay alert and ready, and be sure an’ check yur cinch. I want to see yuh all in one piece the next time yuh come around. We’re travelin’ the road with the Lord by our side, yuh be doin’ the same.
Vaya con Dios.