"It's a place you could have a community that's cut off, and not in danger of constantly running up against people," he says. Sternbergh chose Texas for its space and its solitude, the high lonesome qualities of its wide-open spaces. As The Blinds marches toward its bloody climax, we're left to ask: Is it better to live a life of hollowed-out, shame-free denial, or to accept and own the dirt you've done? Even with new names - Orson Calhoun, Fran Adams, Hubert Humphrey Gable - and sanitized self-perceptions, they remain the sum of their actions. But the past has a way of lingering close. The residents of Caesura want to leave behind their pasts, or at least the less savory chapters. What parts of civilization are we going to bring with us, and what parts are we going to leave behind?" "There are no rules, and you have essentially a little microcosmic society where you're all kind of making it up and deciding things. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images For our weeklong. He points to the HBO series Deadwood as a prime example. By Adam Sternbergh The Crime Scene BROUGHT TO YOU BY Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on the day of a mass shooting. As he explains over lunch in midtown Manhattan earlier this year, the mythology of the frontier thrives on the potential for reinvention.
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