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Another McCarthy simile: “a surge of sorrow like a child beginning to cry” (203)

“That night they camped on a ledge of rock above the plains and watched the lightning all along the horizon provoke from the seamless dark the distant mountain ranges again and again” (93). Love the use of “provoke” here.

Interesting defiance of figurative language: simile for mountains = “like ghosts of mountains”; simile for a horse = “like the ghost of a horse”