They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats and .30-30s, and popular support from the masses and a workable revolutionary ideology and/or a viable myth pattern, I would have rescued them.

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Donald Barthelme was a 20th-century American writer and professor. Donald Barthelme Jr. was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Read more on Wikipedia →

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