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==Chapter 7==
==Chapter 7==
Graves wakes up and sees another deer, maybe its a recurring motif or something. After exploring the banks some more he finds and abandoned house and goes on to describe damn near every object in there to build up an atmosphere. As Graves walks around the rusty, musty, dusty, house he wants to know what the people that lived there were like and their relationship with the river, the Indians, and other crap like that. Graves goes on about buffalo soldiers, and more about Charlie Goodnight and says some pretty nihilistic shit like "an economy in which the planned obsolescence of both man and machine in basic... (pg. 75) He stops off at a dude ranch along the river to make a telephone call but turns around because he doesn't feel welcome and waits until he gets to a quite white trash nearby town. Once there he walks into a shit-n-get and discuses the parlance of our times with an old shopkeep before going to a gas station to call his people then Hale. After heading back to the river Graves brings up Chaucer and Twain while talking about the difference between loneliness and aloneness. While on the loneliness subject he gives the biography of a hermit named Sam Sowell and his sad exploits until his eventual death. The chapter ends with the story of another loner that went to jail because he killed game out of season but Graves justifies killing anytime for survival is morally superior to killing in season for sport.
==Chapter 8==
==Chapter 8==
The chapter starts with some trucks driving near pissing him off and forcing him to start out early. He regains his composure and meets back up with his friend Hale for some hetero shoot stuff and reminisce guy time. He paddle down river listening to nature and watching the clouds turn ominous. Graves goes hunting in a nearby forest and stumbles upon a kindly farmer, McKee, and uses their campground for the night. Graves lounges around the next morning just talking then eats lunch with McKee's family and leaves for the river.
The chapter starts with some trucks driving near pissing him off and forcing him to start out early. He regains his composure and meets back up with his friend Hale for some hetero shoot stuff and reminisce guy time. He paddle down river listening to nature and watching the clouds turn ominous. Graves goes hunting in a nearby forest and stumbles upon a kindly farmer, McKee, and uses their campground for the night. Graves lounges around the next morning just talking then eats lunch with McKee's family and leaves for the river.