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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

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Sleep, Dancing, Judging
Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.349, Vintage

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

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Lying, Sleep, Men
Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false blue dawn the Pleiades seemed to be rising up into the darkness above the world and dragging all the stars away, the great diamond of Orion and Cepella and the signature of Cassiopeia all rising up through the phosphorous dark like a sea-net. He lay a long time listening to the others breathing in their sleep while he contemplated the wildness about him, the wildness within.

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Stars, Sleep, Dark
Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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