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Xavier Ray
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I stopped when I hit this passage and just sat with it.
“As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.”
McCarthy writes a storm not as weather but as something cosmic, as if creation itself is still being hammered out above us. Moments like this are why I read him slowly — the world gets very still, and I feel something ancient and familiar open up.
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“As if repairs were under way at some flawed place in the iron dark of the world.”
McCarthy writes a storm not as weather but as something cosmic, as if creation itself is still being hammered out above us. Moments like this are why I read him slowly — the world gets very still, and I feel something ancient and familiar open up.
