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“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement.”
'He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.’
Blood Meridian - one of the two greatest post-WW2 novels written in English
(The other is, of course, Gilead...)
I mean, how brilliant is this? Redolent of the KJV & Milton, yet somehow not portentous. Just amazing.
