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Today Peter Reich lives in a rented farmhouse in Vermont with his cats, dog, a "companion-wife" and a few reminders of childhood. There are his father's prison letters, some photographs, including a closely guarded one of himself at age eleven, standing proudly in a cowboy hat beneath the cloudbuster. There is an old, well-kept Winchester carbine that his father, who was fond of guns, gave him. There is also an orgone blanket. Roughly 2 ft. by 3 ft., it is simply a layer of natural wool backed with steel wool that is kept in place...
GUND HALL, Midnight Cowboy...
Part of the time The Stranger is Dirty Harry in cowboy boots, a good cop trying to do his duty in a world ungrateful for his sadistic efforts. Part of the time he is Christ reincarnated; in another life (a recurring dream informs us), he suffered a version of Calvary inflicted on him by this very town. Since the citizenry so painfully rejected his previous efforts at salvation, it develops that this second attempt is actually a form of punishment for their earlier transgressions. Heavy stuff, and never more ludicrously so than when he forces them to literally paint their...
...Marlboro Man, and every now and then he'd turn kind of wistful and sad --the cowboy sitting by the campfire at the end of the day -- and sing a soft song about a place he'd visited or a girl he'd loved. But he'd always get back to toughness: ["Them big city women sure do make me tried. Got a handful of gimmee. Got a mouthful of much obliged."]. He didn't sing social protest songs like Pete Seeger or Woody Guthrie. He was scornful of things in general...
...James. If you had wanted Sweet Baby, you'd have gone to him in the first place. Tom had gone from Marlboro Man to Flower Child, from King of the Road to touchy/feeley. He was no fool: he knew the time had come and gone for the short-haired cowboy with the guttural voice and the glint...