Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shap…

Cormac McCarthy
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Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Crossing, p.146, Pan Macmillan
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