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to New Orleans, and then out to the West,
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he moves through the South: He sees blacks in the fields
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lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the
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bolls of cotton, a shadowed agony in the garden.
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[There is some of that Eden imagery I was going to point out to you at
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more length. ] Against the sun's declining figures moving in the
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slower dusk across a paper skyline.
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The landscape itself is already an artifact;
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it's paper.
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It's as if it's of McCarthy's own construction.
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But if you look just across the page, on 5, this is a tiny thing,
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and probably it didn't register to you at all.