The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor.…

Cormac McCarthy
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The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2015). Blood Meridian: Picador Classic, p.209, Pan Macmillan
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