TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 1 altogether

[Glenn Scheper]

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/uncollected/gift.html

Again:

 Tombstone,
 Arizona,
 during the 1880's is,
 in ways,
 our national Camelot:
 a never-never land where American
 virtues are embodied in the Earps,
 and the opposite evils in the Clanton
 gang;
 where the confrontation at the OK
 corral takes on some of the dry purity
 of the Arthurian joust.

Dry reminds me of dry vs. sweet wine: ascerbic, biting.

I missed the literature reference in never-never land,
where the Peter Pan, the puer aeternus, never grows up.

Well, it all might have been so at ten, crouching down
behind concrete walls with cap pistols, but at fifty,
I have to ask, who owns that wall, who must repair it?

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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