"Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
~ Cormac McCarthy ~












This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
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