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Quote #10
This will be good, he thought. It will be good to be the one to see and shoot the wolf. To shoot a wolf in the mountains of Saudi Arabia will be something. The man who pulls the trigger will have done something. (XXVIII.134.277)
Alan has a serious desire to remake his identity on this trip to Saudi Arabia. He has no legacy, no fortune, has done no fabulous deeds, and doesn't really even have a loving family. His desire to murder a wild animal may seem like nothing more than a masculine fantasy (which, hey, it is), but it's also the yearning of a man desperate to have a story and identity that extends beyond his own lifetime.