Great quote in Cormac McCarthy's book the road, last paragraph of the book.
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
— Cormac McCarthy
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BEST BOOK EVER!
SERIOUSLY! EVERYONE MUST read this book!!!
a fast-paced, thrilling, page-turning analysis of what it means to be human, of the role of culture in shaping and then preserving our humanity.
serious. best book ever.
That's some last paragraph. Other books with amazing last paragraphs: Fifth Business, On the Road, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
I've become a big McCarthy fan lately. Another great read of his is "The Blood Meridian". Also, "No Country for Old Men" is a far better book than film (although the film was pretty good, so that says a lot). I've tried "All the Pretty Horses" a few times but can't get into it. Everyone tells me it's great though.
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