Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see…

Cormac McCarthy
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road, p.293, Pan Macmillan
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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road, p.293, Pan Macmillan

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