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    From Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (read by Richard Poe)

    The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element. He put his arms around Glanton. Someone snatched the old woman’s blindfold from her and she and the juggler were clouted away and when the company turned in to sleep and the low fire was roaring in the blast like a thing alive these four yet crouched at the edge of the firelight among their strange chattels and watched how the ragged flames fled down the wind as if sucked by some maelstrom out there in the void, some vortex in that waste apposite to which man’s transit and his reckonings alike lay abrogate. As if beyond will or fate he and his beasts and his trappings moved both in card and in substance under consignment to some third and other destiny.

    via On Writing, by Stephen King

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    This is why I love Cormac McCarthy. I had to look up like 7 words in that paragraph. So beautiful.
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    My favorite English Lit professor referenced this book every time class met. Every.single.time. It would make us giggle,...
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    This is one of my favorite books of all time, by one of my favorite authors of all time, and this is one of my favorite...
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