Outer Dark

by Cormac McCarthy

incunabular

the infancy or earliest stages of something

execration

The act of cursing or denouncing

camarine

paraclete

the Holy Spirit as advocate orcounselor

been rocked and shot at and whipped and kicked and dogbit from one end of this state to the other and you cain’t pay that back. You ain’t got nothin to pay it with. Them accounts is in blood and they ain’t nothin in this world to pay em out with.

Holme saw the blade wink in the light like a long cat’s eye slant and malevolent and a dark smile erupted on the child’s throat and went all broken