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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Monday, April 4, 2016

Donald Trump & Fear & Gun Passion (in Maine).

Mary Behrens spotted this one outside an auction house in Maine. I don't know who's more afraid--the guy who drives this truck, or the rest of us.
I think, him, probably.
Gun fetish.
I think of my uncles, infantry, WWII, at the bitter sharp edge of the war from Normandy into Germany. Hated guns. Despised them. Wouldn't have them in their houses.

2 comments:

  1. Makes me ashamed to drive a Tundra...but then again I don't have a Texas Tundra; mine's pre-Bush.
    Also brings to mind the scary prescience of the settings in "Carry Me"...written, and carefully researched, before the current electoral madness was even on the horizon.

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  2. Makes me think of the old Beatles song... " Hey Bungallo Bill , what did you kill Bungallo Bill ? " This is the " Home of the Brave " ? Hopefully this idiot will put enough stickers on this windshield that he'll T-bone another gun loving coward .

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