“Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.”

—  Cormac McCarthy, book Blood Meridian

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter XI

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