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New post on Recollections 54 The Art of David Tripp
All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lies in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.
T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land
The Texas forecast threatens a 102-degree day this Monday. Yesterday reached 100, and I enjoyed the entire day indoors, in my pajamas, finishing Larry McMurtry's Commanche Moon. I had not read Lonesome Dove till a couple of years ago, and now I've decided to finish out his series by reading Dead Man Walking and Streets of Laredo. I'm saddened at McMurtry's recent death and consider myself blessed that I met him on a number of occasions while visiting his Booked Up Inc. in Archer City, Texas. Reading his Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond led me to read Walter Benjamin's "The Storyteller" and convinced me to continue following my dream of writing and illustrating a book of short stories or maybe even a novel featuring life in America.
Commanche Moon has reignited my appetite to read the history of the American West and re-visit some of the subjects I was painting a couple of years back while engaged in McMurtry reading as well as historical research on the West. I'm pulling out my sketches of bison, longhorns, horses, Plains Indians and cowboys. Perhaps in the coming days I'll have new work to show.
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