Saturday, February 28, 2009

GUS McCRAE - THE FINER THINGS

In times like these, you could do worse than to think of what Gus McCrae referred to as some of the finer things:

The smile of a pretty woman; the taste of fine whisky; and a sunrise on a summer morning [paraphrased].

Ok, so Augustus is a fictional character in the Western novel Lonesome Dove.

I came across him in the 10 or more hours of the TV show, not the sequel mind you, but the original, the real thing – the Robert Duvall Tommy Lee (sp?) Jones production.

There is enough wisdom in this production to keep conversation going for hours around a campfire. Hours and hours.

We highly recommend the viewing and discussing, especially in times like these.

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