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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother… — Cormac McCarthy

Novel · Western literature

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West · 1985
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Predator and preyDangerous world
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Western literature
Medium
Novel
Time
1985
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Cormac McCarthy
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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 5.

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