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“guess he said cattle could tell the difference between a flight of geese and a cat on fire. Maybe”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“,- watching his son in quick pulses of attention.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

“Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had taken a look at his prospects, tied a string around his neck with a brick to the other end, and jumped from a footbridge into two feet of water. Courage aside, he had that family's tenacity of purpose, and drowned, a break in the pattern quickly obliterated by the calcimine of silence.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

“Their boats ride the lenient Current together, in and out of the Shadows, ever in easy reach of rescue, the Boy shepherding them with Willow Wands, no more obtrusive in this Naval History than Gods in a Myth.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon