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discussion of war.
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This is what is said about it.
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This is Irving, or, actually, first Black Jackson
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and then Irving. "The good book says that he
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that lives by the sword shall perish by the sword," said the black.
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The judge smiled, his face shining with grease.
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"What right man would have it any other way?"
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he said. "The good book does indeed count war
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an evil," said Irving. "Yet there's many a bloody tale of
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war inside it."
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I would argue that this is a description of McCarthy's own book,
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except there is one thing that's different.