“You’re not as cold as you pretend to be,’ she said. ‘I think your doors open in different places, that’s all. Most people just don’t know how to get in to you. They knock and they knock where the door… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
“Just across from Bismarck stood Fort Lincoln where friends and relatives of Custer’s dead cavalrymen still lived, and these emigrating Sioux could perceive such… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
“You’re not as cold as you pretend to be,’ she said. ‘I think your doors open in different places, that’s all. Most people just… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
“Captain Jack, that volatile Modoc, seems to have been handled still more causally. After being hanged and buried, Jack was exhumed, embalmed, and exhibited… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
“ She was not certain what she wanted from life, or what to expect from it, for she had seen so little of it,… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness… — Evan S. Connell Copy Share Image
