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Talfulano

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"Talfulano" is the work of literary art one would expect from Bill Rane, Taos artist. A true bildungsroman, it depicts the early life-journey of Talfulano, a sensitive young man who is in the process of learning the nature of his world. He grows up in the shadow of a "larger-than-life" myth of grandfather and the dismal life failure of a father trying to live up to that myth. As he struggles with both myth and the petty prejudices of his father, he reaches an epiphanic moment symbolized by the blinding of his father's horse. "I see then that I have jabbed the tines of the fork into his eyes." The fluids flow slowly downward on his cheeks and blacken in the sun. With that implusive act, he now has the possibility of achieving his destiny devoid of the cumberances of a stifling past. "Putting behind me my old gods - thrusting them backward to the graves they have refused - I leave this mountain now, and turn toward the sea." Rane's painting with words, both prose and poetry, challenge both the intellect and the spirit to escape what "your favorites and your boot-heel hangers-on of favorites can never understand. It is the goats! The goats, and the people of goats, who bring the rites of spring."