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Scott Momaday, a novelist, poet, and literary spent his childhood
on the Navajo, Apache and Pueblo reservations of the Southwest.
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movies of those days were a great and dubious influence upon
us; we were utterly seduced by them. On those Saturday afternoons
at the Reel Theatre we were drawn into worlds of infinite possibility.
Our taste ran to high adventure, and we cared much more for
Sergeant York than for Mrs. Miniver, of course, but we devoured
everything that came our way... And we would not let go of the
movies, but we lived in them for days afterwards. I remember
that after we had seen The Black Swan, there were sword fights
in the streets, and we battered each other mercilessly. Most
of the swords were flimsy affairs, curtain weights and yardsticks;
but mine was a length of doweling that I had pushed through
a gelatin mold; it was a superior weapon, and with it I terrorized
the neighborhood.
N.
Scott Momaday, The Names, 89.
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