I've always loved copying favorite passages from books. Here are a few I'd like to share from my current read:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. (10)
They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste. Trekking the dried floor of a mineral sea where it lay cracked and broken like a fallen plate. (54)
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. Like a dawn before battle. (137)
The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early (193)
Some good words:
- rachitic
- siwash
- claggy
- catamite
- kerf
- dentil
- chary
- illucid
- mendicant
- travois
- loess
- torsional
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I do! I remember I copied many of them when I read it, and I think your second one was among them.. I was so impressed with McCarthy's writing - and somehow I didn't think I'd be, because I'd heart people go on and on about the lack of commas and apostrophes. But it didn't matter one bit.
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