“ ‘The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.’
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Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
I started reading this in hospital because I couldn’t comfortably rest Atlas Shrugged on my stomach, and it is full of really wonderful sentences such as this.
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sachiel said:
Heh I’m currently reading this too because I found it in the attic..
Sometimes I stop to replay passages in the best croaky Texan accent my inner voice can produce
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