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or inheritance, or influence that McCarthy is
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drawing on: one historical-- and I noted Sam Chamberlain's source
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material from his account of his life with the Glanton Gang--
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and then that whole train of literary allusions that
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I unearthed for you.
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The historical is made moot in this wonderful little passage
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from the judge.
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If the moral is made moot in all these ways that I am discussing,
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the historical is dismissed quite quickly, 330.
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He says: "Men's memories" [This is the
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very last line of the page.] "Men's memories are uncertain and the past
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that was differs little from the past that was not."