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“Finally his own person was even lost to him. Whatever he had been he was no more. He said that like every man who comes to the end of something there was nothing to be done but to begin again.”

I had to reread the paragraph in which the boy kills the wolf a few times to make sure I had it right. It was so unexpected and tragic. I expected the whole of the book to be about the she-wolf and this journey.

McCarthy has several beautifully written passages in this first chapter. Several of which refer to a power in this world nothing can contain, not referring to the wolf, but the evil heart of man.