Bob, the protagonist in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, lived by a simple code: Never mention dogs ("to even mention a dog would have been a hex in itself"). Never look at the back of a mirror ("because you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it, because you've never seen it before"), and never, under no circumstances, should a hat ever be placed on a bed. Doing so would bring "fifteen years . . .
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