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“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”

Feelin ill at ease? Well, yeah: I’m reading Cormac McCarthy and trying to get my head around what’s goin on. But that aint nothin. It’ll come.