Go to the Widow-Maker (2011)
“He loved his knife and always sharpened it himself, never allowed anybody else to touch it.
The knife slid up the exact center of the belly to the chin as soft and easy as if moving through water, or into a cunt, and the slippery, slightly sticky guts slithered out on the dock like prisoners released from confinement. This one had been eatin right good. Four completely whole shiner minnows could be seen through the thin belly membrane. Bonham slit the membrane and shucked them out. One of them ...was still alive. Laughing, Bonham showed it to the Negroes, who laughed too, and tossed it back in the water. “Lucky,” he called. “He day no come up.”
Automatically his fingers probed around inside the cavity making sure everything was out. Then, pulling them out clean, right up to the chin, he sliced all the guts off neatly at the gill. In fact his mind was not on what his hands were doing. It was on Ron Grant.
As he resharpened the knife on the big soft-Arkansas oilstone, he whistled inaudibly under his breath some idiot tune.MoreLess
The knife slid up the exact center of the belly to the chin as soft and easy as if moving through water, or into a cunt, and the slippery, slightly sticky guts slithered out on the dock like prisoners released from confinement. This one had been eatin right good. Four completely whole shiner minnows could be seen through the thin belly membrane. Bonham slit the membrane and shucked them out. One of them ...was still alive. Laughing, Bonham showed it to the Negroes, who laughed too, and tossed it back in the water. “Lucky,” he called. “He day no come up.”
Automatically his fingers probed around inside the cavity making sure everything was out. Then, pulling them out clean, right up to the chin, he sliced all the guts off neatly at the gill. In fact his mind was not on what his hands were doing. It was on Ron Grant.
As he resharpened the knife on the big soft-Arkansas oilstone, he whistled inaudibly under his breath some idiot tune.MoreLess
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