Excerpt from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.

Excerpt taken

from Chapter Seventeen.

That night Glanton stared long into the embers of the fire. All about him his men were sleeping... He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same to him. He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to whatever might follow for he was complete at every hour... He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as he did that men's destinies are given yet he usurped to contain within him all that he would ever be in the world and all that the world would be to him and be his charter written in the urstone itself he claimed agency and said so and he'd drive the remorseless sun on to its final endarkenment...