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The time is 1902, the setting eastern Oregon. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. What follows is a series of wild, witty,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Greer: Hired gun
- Cameron: Aother hired gun, this one with a tendency to count everything
- Magic Child: A beautiful Indian
- Miss Hawkline: Known to suddenly find herself naked in a room full of musical instruments
- Morgan: The unusually tall butler working for the Hawkline family
- Professor Hawkline: Disappeared while he was working on a project he called 'The Chemicals'
Quotes edit
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“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience Greer and Cameron had ever gone through, even more terrible than the time they shot a deputy sheriff in Idaho ten times and he wouldn't die and Greer finally had to say to the deputy sheriff, 'Please die because we don't want to shoot you again.'”
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“The road stopped like a dying man's signature on a last-minute will.”
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“It sounds like a combination of water being poured into a glass, a dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud.”
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“You didn't think he was going to turn into a dwarf when he died, did you?”
Cameron
First Sentence edit
They crouched with their rifles in the pineapple field, watching a man teach his son how to ride a horse.
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- Richard Brautigan (Author)
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