![]() ![]() Or slept with their alien hearts beating in the sand like pilgrims exhausted upon the face of the planet Anareta, clutched to a namelessness wheeling in the night. The survivors lay quietly in that cratered void and watched the whitehot stars go rifling down the dark. At night the horses were fed by hand from sacks of meal and watered from buckets. ![]() The wolves loped paler yet and grouped and skittered and lifted their lean snouts on the air. The white noon saw them through the waste like a ghost army, so pale they were with dust, like shades of figures erased upon a board. They saw halfburied skeletons of mules with the bones so white and polished they seemed incandescent even in that blazing heat and they saw panniers and packsaddles and the bones of men and they saw a mule entire, the dried and blackened carcass hard as iron. "In two days they began to come upon bones and cast-off apparel. He has a very different style in Blood Meridian, his most famous novel, which has more of a maximalist approach to writing, full and chunky with words. He doesn't use the style in all the books, but he certainly uses it in some. ![]()
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