Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author's severity or the grumblings of his first reader, first editor and first typist (all of them me) -- no! Because of another's will and another's hand. Sections kept vanishing. Once from the apartment in Moscow; once stolen along with his bag at the dental clinic in Gorky; once from our parked car, which had been broken into, with Andrei knocked out by some drug. Each time he rewrote his book. Each time there was something new -- sometimes better written, sometimes not, sometimes on a different subject...
...Hunt clinic lasts five days. Mornings, he works with green colts -- young horses that have had little or no handling. Afternoons, he works with those of us whose horses have been ridden 15 or 20 times or more...
...first morning of the clinic, held at the Snake River Ranch at the base of the Teton Range, a small crowd gathers to watch the colt class. One tall, black-haired cowboy mumbles that he thinks it's all bullshit. Ray's eyes sparkle. "People come to me and say, 'I'm having trouble with my horse,' and the horse is saying, 'I'm having trouble with this person,' and I believe the horse every time...
...last day of the clinic we all ride in a lush pasture not far from where a billowing cloud on the Grand Teton looks like a pillar of smoke. We make mistakes. My roan colt gets scared because I'm scared, and he tries to run off. Les' chestnut mare slips and falls on her because Les has been too demanding. Chuck's mule and Elaine's colt pull away because they've been too imprecise, too lenient. "The horse is a mirror. When I see your horse, I see you too," Ray reminds...
...gathers us around. He looks sad, not because the clinic is ending but because he is sending us into a world that barely remembers the worth of a working horse...