“The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundial's hand beneath a sun berserk.”

— Cormac McCarthy, book Outer Dark

Outer Dark (1968)

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American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1933

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