The Hawkline Monster. Richard Brautigan

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The Butler

       Getting Ready to Go to Work

       Journey to the Ice Caves

       The Door

       Thanatopsis Exit

       Thanatopsis Exit #2

       After Making Love Conversation

       Mirror Conversation

       Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey, Won’t You Come Home?

       The Hawkline Orchestra

       The Butler Possibilities

       On the Way to a Butler Possibility

       A Surprise

       The Butler Conclusion

       Mr. Morgan, Requiescat in Pace

       Prints

       Magic Child Revisited

       Return to the Monster

       Questions Near Sunset

       What Counts

       But Supper First, Then the Hawkline Monster

       Counting the Hawkline Monster

       The Hawkline Monster in the Gravy

       Parlor Time Again

       Soliloqu yof the Shadow

       Meanwhile, Back in the Parlor

       Meanwhile, Back in the Jar

       A Man’s Work Turned to Nothing

       Waking Up

       The Decision

       Upstairs

       Whiskey

       Searching for a Container

       To Kill a Jar

       The Elephant Foot Umbrella Stand

       The Hawkline Monster in 4/4 Beat

       Daddy

       A Harem of Shadows

       Father and Daughters Reunited (Sort of

       Marriage

       Dream Residence

       The Battle

       The Passing of the Hawkline Monster

       The Return of Professor Hawkline

       The Lazarus Dynamic

       An Early Twentieth-Century Picnic

       The Hawkline Diamonds

       Lake Hawkline

      Book 1

      · Hawaii ·

      · The Riding Lesson ·

      They crouched with their rifles in the pineapple field, watching a man teach his son how to ride a horse. It was the summer of 1902 in Hawaii.

      They hadn’t said anything for a long time. They just crouched there watching the man and the boy and the horse.

      What they saw did not make them happy.

      “I can’t do it,” Greer said.

      “It’s a bastard all right,” Cameron said.

      “I can’t shoot a man when he’s teaching his kid how to ride a horse.” Greer said. “I’m not made that way.”

      Greer and Cameron were not at home in the pineapple field. They looked out of place in Hawaii. They were both dressed in cowboy clothes, clothes that belonged to Eastern Oregon.

      Greer had his favorite gun: a 30:40 Krag, and Cameron had a 25:35 Winchester. Greer liked to kid Cameron about his gun. Greer always used to say, “Why do you keep that rabbit rifle around when you can get a real gun like this Krag here?”

      They stared intently at the riding lesson.

      “Well, there goes 1,000 dollars apiece,” Cameron said. “And that God-damn trip on that God-damn boat was for nothing. I thought I was going to puke forever and now I’m going to have to do it all over again with only the change in my pockets.”


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