A map speck called Maudlow . . .
Any tinier and it would have been microscopic, any more remote and it would have been off the planet.
If a person can take time to reflect on such a reach of land other matters dim out.
Ivan Doig, English Creek
The reservoir was discharging water plentifully when we arrived, the spillway frothing in a way Pop remarked he hadn't seen in years.
- Ivan Doig, The Bartender's Tale
People come and go in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever; and that is a fresh saga everytime.
The Teton country . . . Gravelroading straight west . . . the rough great wall of the Rockies where gate-like canyons on either side of the Indian Head Rock let forth the twin forks of the Teton River.
- Ivan Doig, Ride With Me, Mariah Montana.
America in that agitated time; not merely a nation, but something like a continental nervous condition.
The sheriff hated the sight of the ungodly pyramid of raw dirt that the dambuilders were piling across the throat of the Missouri River.
-Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun
“Life is a zig zag journey, they say,
Not much straight and easy on the way.
- Ivan Doig, Last Bus to Wisdom, Letty’s entry in Donny’s Autograph Book
When you take a look in your memory book
Here you will find the lasting kind,
Old rhymes and new,
Life in review,
Roses in the snow of long ago.
Ivan Doig, Herman’s entry in Donny’s Autograph Book in Last Bus to Wisdom
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