Sam Shepard

Fool for Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill

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  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    MAY: He’s gone.

    MARTIN: He said he’d be back in a second.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    MARTIN: All the horses are loose.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    THE OLD MAN: (to MAY) She drew me to her. She went out of her way to draw me in. She was a force. I told her I’d never come across for her. I told her that right from the very start. But she opened up to me. She wouldn’t listen. She kept opening up her heart to me. How could I turn her down when she loved me like that? How could I turn away from her? We were completely whole.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    She was a force. I
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    Once their eyes meet they never leave each other’s gaze.)
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    EDDIE: (calmly to OLD MAN) It was your shotgun. Same one we used to duck hunt with. Browning. She never fired a gun before in her life. That was her first time.

    THE OLD MAN: Nobody told me any a’ that. I was left completely in the dark.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    And Eddie’s mother — (Pause. She looks straight at EDDIE) — Eddie’s mother blew her brains out. Didn’t she, Eddie? Blew her brains right out.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    We got sick at night when we were apart. Violently sick. And my mother even took me to see a doctor. And Eddie’s mother took him to see the same doctor but the doctor had no idea what was wrong with us.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t even feel sorry for her. All I could think of was him.

    THE OLD MAN: (to EDDIE) She’s gettin’ way outa’ line, here.
  • Eleonora Figueroahas quoted4 years ago
    Nobody saw him after that. Ever. And my mother— just turned herself inside out. I never could understand that. I kept watching her grieve, as though somebody’d died. She’d pull herself up into a ball and just stare at the floor. And I couldn’t understand that because I was feeling the exact opposite feeling.
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