Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling …

Cormac McCarthy
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road, p.4, Pan Macmillan
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