Indian Horse
Analysis
I was an alchemist, mixing solutions I packed in my lunch kit to assuage the strychnine feel of rot in my guts. It was a dim world. Things glimmered, never shone.( chapter 44)
I was an alchemist, mixing solutions I packed in my lunch kit to assuage the strychnine feel of rot in my guts. It was a dim world. Things glimmered, never shone.( chapter 44)
In context, the above quote speaks to the way Saul lived during his early twenties.... drinking, the occasional minimum wage job, and getting into fights. Plodding along without direction, Saul is neither happy nor miserable... he simply exists.
Indian Horse