The attitudes and intentions are why we should bring it up, to interrogate the present to see what of the past remains. Because our present day poten… - Wright Thompson

Less than a decade had passed since the murder, but a world had died. All that violence to protect a way of life, and in the end, it just crumbled to dust.

What’s in a Vanhattan?” I asked as he started to mix. “It’s half rye, half bourbon,” he said. When he said rye, he meant the Van Winkle rye. And when he said bourbon, he meant Pappy. The bar was on the wall near the grill. He poured from feel; he didn’t need jiggers. “Carpano Antica vermouth,” he said.

the game always the same no matter how much the men who love it change, a simplicity that waits day after day, beautiful and addictive.