"Mornings on Horseback."

Duty, nothing else, requires us to make one final usage of this book before confining it to the dustbin of...just the dustbin. Before getting to the passage previously excerpted which proved to be the "straw that broke the horseback" and caused the undersigned to "toss the book aside" by "throwing the book across the room" the undersigned read a passage that he underlined for future reference but which he did not excerpt until now because the book hit an unlucky vase of water emptying its contents onto the book causing the pages to stick together which have now dried out which passage the undersigned briefly introduces for "context" viz:

Florida is the asshole of America. This notion was a matter of first impression with the undersigned when it was verbalized by a friend who is also a police officer. The notion "solidified" in the mind of the undersigned in the year 2000 when George Dubya Bush stole the presidential election from Al Gore who had earlier invented the internet. Hanging chads, Bush v Gore, etc. & etc., that did it. Oh, the undersigned had seen other "signs" of it, the assassination attempt on FDR, Gianni Versace's murder, Al Capone, Alpha 66, Gregory Hemingway's "coming out" as "Vanessa" upon his arrest, but it wasn't until that 2000 election that the notion, solidified, as I said. Electoral shenanigans have occurred since which have reinforced the solidification but the undersigned had no idea how far back Florida's "assholeness" went and it is here, and it is now, that we make final reference to "Mornings on Broken Horseback" before confining it to a damp, moldy grave, viz:

...Saltonstall, in particular, harbored bitter enmity toward almost all Republicans as a consequence of the 1876 election. Sent by the National Democratic Committee to witness the tally of disputed votes in Florida, he had seen the presidency being stolen before his eyes and refused ever to forget it.