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Quote #1
Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time. (3)
This isn't the fun kind of dark that you get at a haunted house or slumber party. Is the "darkness over them all" only about the weather? After going through the whole novel, could this also be metaphorical in some way? What kind of tone does this set?
Quote #2
What the hell reason you got for staying? You think somebody's goin to die and leave you something?
[No.]
That's good. Cause they aint. […]
If I dont go will you go anyways?
John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said. (66-8, 72-3)
John is still upset over being denied the inheritance of his ranch, and seems to have made up his mind to leave. Did he have any alternatives? Could you imagine moments in the early section of the novel where he might have gone a different direction?
Quote #3
The old man shaped his mouth how to answer. Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion. (1645)
What could it be about men that makes them unable to be understood the way horses are? Can you relate this to the idea of "man versus the natural world"?