The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds t…

Cormac McCarthy
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The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2015). Blood Meridian: Picador Classic, p.91, Pan Macmillan
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