There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone …

Cormac McCarthy
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Suttree, p.4, Pan Macmillan
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Suttree, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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