I WONT TALK ABOUT the war her. I was supposed to be a war hero and I lost a whole squad of men. Got decorated for it. They died and I got a medal. I dont eveo know what you think about that. There aint a day I dont remember it. Some boys I know e back they went on to school up at Austin on the GI Bill, they had hard things to say about their people. Some of em did. Called em a bunch of rednecks and all such as that. Didnt like their politics. Two geions in this try is a long time. Youre talkin about the early settlers. I used to tell em that havin your wife and children killed and scalped and gutted like fish has a tendenake some people irritable but they dido know what I was talkin about. I think the sixties in this try sobered some of em up. I hope it did. I read in the papers here a while bae teachers e across a survey that was sent out ba the thirties to a number of schools around the try. Had this questionnaire about what was the problems with tea in the schools. And they e across these forms, theyd been filled out a in from around the try answer in these questions. And the biggest problems they could name was things like talkin in class and runnin in the hallways. Chewin gum. Copyin homework. Things of that nature. So they got one of them forms that was blank and printed up a bun a em back out to the same schools. Forty years later.
Well, here e the answers back. Rape, arson, murder. Drugs. Suicide. So I think about that. Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket people will just sort of smile and tell me Im gettin old. That its one of the symptoms. But my feelin about that is that anybody that t tell the differeween rapin and murderin people and chewin gum has got a whole lot bigger of a problem than what Ive got. Forty years is not a long time her. Maybe the forty of it will bring some of em out from uhe ether. If it aint too late.
Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a feren Corpus Christi and I got set o this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what she meant by it.
The people I know are mostly just on people. on as dirt, as the sayin goes. I told her that and she looked at me funny. She thought I was sayin somethin bad about em, but of course thats a high pliment in my part of the world. She kept o on.
Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this try is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the try is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what shell be able to have an abortion. Im goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, shell be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ehe versation.
CHIGURH LIMPED UP THE seventeen flights of crete steps in the cool crete well and whe to the steel door on the landing he shot the der out of the lock with the plunger of the stungun and opehe door and stepped into the hallway and shut the door behind him. He stood leaning against the door with the shotgun in both hands, listening. Breathing no harder than if hed just got up out of a chair. He went down the hallicked the crushed der out of the floor and put it in his pocket a on to the elevator and stood listening agaiook off his boots and stood them by the elevator