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The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world

The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their claims upon them. The world past, the world to come. Their common transciencies. Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.

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Loss, Past, Men
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain: Book 3 of Border Trilogy”, p.85, Vintage

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

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Past, Hands, World
Cormac McCarthy (1999). “Cities of the plain”, Vintage

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

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Memories, Past, Men
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

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Past, Moon, Blue
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

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Stars, Past, Men
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

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Memories, Past, Night
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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