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Cormac Mccarthy
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In the mountains they saw deer in the headlights and in the headlights the deer were pale as ghosts and as soundless. They turned their red eyes toward this unreckoned sun and sidled and grouped and leapt the bar ditch by ones and twos. A small doe lost her footing on the macadam and scrabbled wildly and sank onto her hindquarters and rose again and vanished with the others into the chaparral beyond the roadside.
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― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
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Blood. This country is give much blood. This Mexico. This is a thirsty country. The blood of a thousand Christs. Nothing
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― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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