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So many memorable moments. The first half-dozen that come to mind:

— HARROGATE DRUNK IN PRISON

Bet your ass, said Harrogate, winking profoundly.

— HARROGATE GOING FOR THE BRASS RING WITH BAT BOUNTIES

Very ingenious. Damned ingenious.
I can figure out anything.

— HARROGATE VERSUS THE JUNKYARD PROPRIETOR

The man set down the jar and rose and went to the door. He pointed out the car. It was accordioned to half its length. Bring them sun visors too, he said.
What happened to it?
Run head on into a semi. Froze the speedometer on the peg. You’ll see it.
Harrogate looked at the car in some wonder. How many was in it?
Four or five. Bunch of boys. They found one in a field about two days later.
Did it kill em?
The junkman looked down at Harrogate. Did it what? he said.
Did it kill em.
Why no. I think one of em got a skint knee is all.
Boy I don’t see how it kept from killin em.
The junkman shook his head wearily and went back in.

— RIVER BURIAL

Leonard.
Yeah.
When did he die?

— GOING HOME IN A THUNDERSTORM

I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.

— THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING

Used to be a hobo right smart. Back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could do. I was ridin through the mountains one night, state of Colorado. Dead of winter it was and bitter cold. I had just a smidgin of tobacco, bout enough for one or two smokes. I was in one of them old slatsided cars and I’d been up and down in it like a dog tryin to find some place where the wind wouldnt blow. Directly I scrunched up in a corner and rolled me a smoke and lit it and thowed the match down. Well, they was some sort of stuff in the floor about like tinder and it caught fire. I jumped up and stomped on it and it aint done nothin but burn faster. Wasnt two minutes the whole car was afire. I run to the door and got it open and we was goin up this grade through the mountains in the snow with the moon on it and it was just blue looking and dead quiet out there and them big old black pine trees going by. I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I’m goin to tell you you’ll think peculiar but it’s the god’s truth. That was in nineteen and thirty one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I dont think I’ll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around the bend and them flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.

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What was your favorite moment? For me it was Leonard forcing Suttree to help sink his (Leonard's) dead father in the river