Poetry · Character
Pennoyer
A one-eyed ex-West Point cadet whose cannon misfired both before and behind, leaving him to wander in mind and mourn a breach of the peace he never wanted.
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First appearance: poetry
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Governor of Oregon who defiantly refuses to greet the President and says 'He be damned!'
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Pennoyer sits on a roadside stone with a face ungay and an eye that is all alone, a young man whose study of how to kill ended in a double spurt of the gun. His lonely eye rolls unconsidered as he defines his views: he…
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