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“ It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.

Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing

“The Crossing” is book 2 in the ‘Border Trilogy’, inbetween “All The Pretty Horses” and “Cities of the Plain.” If you’ve any intent on reading the trilogy, I recommend picking up the UK edition of the book, which compiles it into one very nice volume. You can get it from bookdepository.co.uk cheap and free shipping. I tend to like UK editions of books better, and this site is the greatest.

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780330334617/The-Border-Trilogy

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