Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
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