He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man. (Cormac McCarthy)

He can neither read nor write and in him already there broods a taste for mindless violence. All history present in that visage, the child the father of the man.

Cormac McCarthy

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