The desire to blow Joe Dale Bigg’s head off with the Browning 9mm was so unreasonable yet so vast that Two-Tie was sorry to see him come running out of the barn towards his cab. In a mood like this, things could come apart. Two-Tie had the aging loan shark’s strong disinclination to die in jail….
From Jaimy Gordon’s The Lord of Misrule. Previously quoted here.

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