Homo Vitruvius's First Essay, 4/12/23

"In the Prison of His Days"

In the Coen brothers’ film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Garret Dillahunt, playing Wendell, deputy to Tommy Lee Jones’ Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, gazes over the carnage of a drug-smuggler shoot out in the West Texas desert and declares:

“It’s a mess, ain’t it sheriff.”

Says Sheriff Bell in reply:

“If it ain’t, it’ll do til the mess gets here.”