... an instant, each subsequent impact more beautiful than the previous, each morsel of evidence of instantaneous betrothal of hoof and earth progressing onward toward the horizon. Life was always intertwined with the past; the primal freedom of ancient Comanche tribes passing through the blood-colored dust coating the earth and through hazard, the past was torn from the present, forming an abyss that John Grady would ... have to cross to satiate the void which had suddenly appeared within, a pseudopod of the abyss within his soul. Armed ... on horseback in hot pursuit. As Blevins tries to ...

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