Cormac McCarthy - By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the...

By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague.

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By midmorning eight of the horses stood tied and the other eight were wilder than deer, scattering along the fence and bunching and running in a rising sea of dust as the day warmed, coming to reckon slowly with the remorselessness of this rendering of their fluid and collective selves into that condition of separate and helpless paralysis which seemed to be among them like a creeping plague. Cormac McCarthy

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midmorning horses stood tied wilder deer scattering fence bunching running rising sea dust day warmed coming reckon slowly remorselessness rendering fluid collective condition separate helpless paralysis creeping plague

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