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But a fast car and an open road can give you a sensation that's hard to dupicate anywhere else or otherwise. CM

everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to. Do you think the patience is infinite? I think we're probably almost there. I think the odds are on that we'll still be here to see him what his thumb and lean over and unscrew the sun. -CM

Thetr were cutthroat trout in the river but he'd lost all heart to kill things. One day he saw a mink loping humpbacked along a stretch of gravel. - CM

He bathed in the creek that ran beneath tje road.
An old concrete bridge. The rebar showing through the rails. He stood naked and shivering on the gravelbar downstream and toweled himself off. The water was cold and clear in the pool below the bridge. - CM

The trucks grew fewer. No wind. Silence. The little carpet colored vipers coiled out there in the dark. Your best of the pass into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. -CM

Has the room jams and the sound of voices fades you understand that the world, and all it will soon cease to be. You believe that it will begin again. You point to other lives. But their world was never yours.

Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with the flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators toward the dawn. He slept with them in the sand. They didnot disturb the passengers. -CM

loving; deep, contemplative and a slow thriller. love the italics storyline so much. m