![]() McMurtry depicts them passing through Duane's life much like the lunchtime crowd at Texasville's Dairy Queen, subjecting him to, alternately, seduction, admiration, dismissal and abject scorn, revealing in brief sketches how Duane's station may change but his odd centrality to Thalia does not. Slater, the wealthy heiress Honor Moore, Duane's former paramour and shrink, now a lesbian Casey Kincaid, a porn star Willy, Duane's Rhodes-scholar grandson an imported African San Bushman called Sam of the San Boyd Cotton, a grizzly old rancher and, of course, the mysterious Double Aught. ![]() The Thalia of the present is also inhabited by McMurtry's patented brand of wacky misfits: K.K. Larry McMurtry began the story of Duane Moore in 1966 with the novel The Last Picture Show. ![]()
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