around 3300 BCE.7 Tokens from this later era were incised with line-drawn depictions of sheep, cattle, ears of barley, and other agricultural commodities, and were often unearthed alongside (or even inside) spherical clay “envelopes” called
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“They watch stoms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark.”
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“He was wounded in an enemy country far from home and although his eyes took in the alien stones about yet the greater void beyond seemed to swallow up his soul.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.
That would be a hell of a zoo.
The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
That would be a hell of a zoo.
The judge smiled. Yes, he said. Even so.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
― Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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