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Randall Lafournais
Linden Lark is a local white man who rapes Geraldine at the book's beginning. Linden, who is the son of Grace and George Lark and is Linda Lark's twin biological brother, is a disturbed and bigoted man. He enjoys verbally abusing people, including Linda, and then mockingly apologizing for it. Linden, suffers from drug and alcohol problems, and received a kidney from Linda several years before the novel starts. Linden rapes Geraldine after he discovers that Geraldine is trying to help Mayla enroll her child in the Chippewa tribe. Linden, who says that he is in love with Mayla, is distraught that she had a child with someone else, and he also seems to intend to steal the money that the baby’s father, South Dakota governor Curtis Yeltow, gives her. Linden kills Mayla and hides her body in the construction site near the reservation. Because of his crimes, Linden meets the qualification of a wiindigoo (a human that feeds on other human flesh), meaning that Joe acts according to tribal justice when he kills Linden towards the book’s end.
Linden Lark Quotes in The Round House
The The Round House quotes below are all either spoken by Linden Lark or refer to Linden Lark. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger me or harass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I’ve had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this… All of this… It is all a violation.
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Chapter 6
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The welfare stole me from Betty and I was alone in the whiteness.
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Chapter 7
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You don’t swear on the job, said Sonja. You’re representing something.
Okay.
We drove for a few miles. I asked what I was representing.
Reservation-based free market enterprise. People are watching us.
Who's watching us?
White people. I mean, resentful ones. You know? Like those Larks who owned Vinland. He's been here, but he’s nice to me. Like, he's not so bad.
Linden?
Yeah, that one.
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Chapter 8
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I suppose I am one of those people who just hates Indians generally… my feeling is that Indian women are—what he called us, I don't want to say… He said we have no standing under the law for a good reason and yet have continued to diminish the white man and to take his honor… I won't get caught, he said… I know as much law as a judge. Know any judges? I have no fear… The strong should rule the weak. Instead of the weak the strong! It is the weak who pull down the strong.
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Linden Lark Quotes in The Round House
The The Round House quotes below are all either spoken by Linden Lark or refer to Linden Lark. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger me or harass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I’ve had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this… All of this… It is all a violation.
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Chapter 6
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The welfare stole me from Betty and I was alone in the whiteness.
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Chapter 7
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You don’t swear on the job, said Sonja. You’re representing something.
Okay.
We drove for a few miles. I asked what I was representing.
Reservation-based free market enterprise. People are watching us.
Who's watching us?
White people. I mean, resentful ones. You know? Like those Larks who owned Vinland. He's been here, but he’s nice to me. Like, he's not so bad.
Linden?
Yeah, that one.
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Chapter 8
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I suppose I am one of those people who just hates Indians generally… my feeling is that Indian women are—what he called us, I don't want to say… He said we have no standing under the law for a good reason and yet have continued to diminish the white man and to take his honor… I won't get caught, he said… I know as much law as a judge. Know any judges? I have no fear… The strong should rule the weak. Instead of the weak the strong! It is the weak who pull down the strong.
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