Cover of book Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Book III of The Border Trilogy, Cities of the Plain. Nice tie together via the protagonists of books I and II. The search for meaning and finding it in the most unexpected places. Tragic and hopeful. A must read. Amazing work.
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he would ride that trail in the moonlight..and the ghosts of the Comanches would pass all about him on their way to the other world..for a thing once set in motion has no ending in this world until the last witness has passed.
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He was crying and the tears ran on his angry face and he called out to the broken day against them all and he called out to God to see what was before his eyes. Look at this, he called. Do you see? Do you see?
The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power
to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.
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I tried to see the pattern that it made upon the earth because I thought that if I could see that pattern and identify the form of it then I would know better how to
continue. I would know what my path must be. would see into
the future of my life.
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Days of the world. Years of the world. Till he was old.
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I'd ride and I'd never look back. I'd ride to where I couldnt find a single day I ever knew. Even if I was to turn back and ride
over ever foot of that ground. Then I'd ride some more.
I've been thataway, said the rider.
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He said that she would be going to the other side now. Then the cab pulled into the clearing and came to a stop and when she looked what she saw coming toward her across the clearing in the earliest light of morning was the smiling Tiburcio.
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But he had already seen….
The boy lay with his face turned away from the light. His eyes were open. Billy called to him. As if he could not have gone far.
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Do you know what my name is, farmboy? Do you know my name?
He turned his back on the boy…addressed the night.
In his dying perhaps the suitor will see that it was his hunger for mysteries that has undone him.
She said goodbye to
the small birds strung shoulder to shoulder along the lightwires
overhead who had slept and were waking and whose name she would never know.
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My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd
always wanted.
Well, said John Grady. I'm willin to risk it. I've damn sure tried it the other way.
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From where we'd stop we were not a hour away and the coffee was still hot on the stove down there but it was worlds away.
Worlds away.
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Before I name you completely to myself I will give you even yet a last chance to save yourself. I will let you walk, suitor. If walk you will.
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…I could live in Mexico…Dont you think if there's anything left of this life it's down there?
Maybe.
You like it too.
Yeah? I dont even know what this life is.
Yessir. February seventeenth. It's the last day before Lent. Or
I guess next to last. After that you cant get married till Easter.
Is that cuttin it kindly close?
It'll be all right.
Mac nodded.
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He always said hat the problem with poker was you
played with two kinds of money. What you won was gravy but
what you lost was hard come by.
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He spoke in reasoned tones the words of a reasonable man. The more reasonably he spoke the colder the wind in the hol-
low of her heart. At each juncture in her case he paused to give
her space in which to speak but she did
not speak
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Pale and dirty waif drifted by
mischance in from the outer cold to cross the room with eyes cast down and arms crossed at her breasts. Leaving bloody
footprints in the carpet as if a penitent had passed.
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The girl waited for her to speak but she only looked into her face as if to remember her. Perhaps to read at second hand the shapes of the roads that had led her to this place. What was lost or what was ruined. Whom bereft. Or what remained.
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look of pained wonder.
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Men speak of blind destiny…But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet…we are free to act only upon what is given.
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He passed his hand across the top of the table. As if he were making smooth something unseen before him.
It had been years since last they spoke and their enemistad was a
deep and bitter thing. Perhaps they had
become enemies for the same reason
they had once been
friends. Which often happens in the world.
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Enemistad: 👇
Do I think you're crazy? he said. No. I dont. You've rewrote the book for
crazy. If all you are is crazy then all them poor bastards in the
loonybin that they're feedin under the door need to be set loose
in the street.
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You are the trujamán.
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Trujamán (from the Hispanic Arabic turgumán ), also called trujimán or dragomán, is a term used to refer to the type of language interpreter in commercial transactions
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A square shaft of light fell slant from the barred streetwindow above him and terminated out on the floor in a pale trapezoid. In the center of it like a thing displayed in a bent and veering cage sat a…housecat washing itself.
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It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it…There's a lot of things look better at a distance.
Yeah?
I think so.
I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.
Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
