It must be ten years now since we saw the mini-series version of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, but hardly a day passes that something from it doesn't come to mind. Today, sitting here looking out the window on a sunny afternoon, I started thinking about the death of Deets for some reason, and went downstairs to find the book and refresh my memory of it. There is a point right after he dies (trying to return a blind Indian baby to its mother) where Call says "We should have shot sooner," and Gus replies, "I don't want to start thinking about all the things we should have done for this man." There is something about that passage that keeps coming back to me. Maybe it's just a green-eyed sense that no other words could have been better in that situation.
