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Quote #10
The indians stood watching him. He could see that none of them spoke among themselves or commented on his riding there nor did they raise a hand in greeting or call out to him. They had no curiosity about him at all. As if they knew all they needed to know. They stood and watched him vanish upon that landscape solely because he was passing. Solely because he would vanish. (4050).
This scene forms a coda to the first quote under this theme about the vanished Comanche nation: now at the end of the novel, John, too, is merely a life that came into the world and will soon vanish from it, much like Pop Rocks in soda.