Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark
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In Cormac McCarthy's "Outer Dark," a poignant moment arises as a character reflects on her relationships with others. Her declaration to avoid welcoming strangers into her life while she is away underscores a deep sense of caution and mistrust. This highlights her isolation and the emotional barriers she has built to protect herself from the unknown.

The character’s sigh reveals her resignation to loneliness, suggesting that everyone feels like a stranger to her. This sentiment illustrates the broader theme of alienation present in the novel, emphasizing how personal experiences shape our perceptions of others and the world around us.

In Cormac McCarthy's "Outer Dark," a poignant moment arises as a character reflects on her relationships with others. Her declaration to avoid welcoming strangers into her life while she is away underscores a deep sense of caution and mistrust. This highlights her isolation and the emotional barriers she has built to protect herself from the unknown.

The character’s sigh reveals her resignation to loneliness, suggesting that everyone feels like a stranger to her. This sentiment illustrates the broader theme of alienation present in the novel, emphasizing how personal experiences shape our perceptions of others and the world around us.

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When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
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When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.
She went to the window and looked out. The ground fell away to a branch where willows burned lime green in the sunset. Dark little birds kept crossing the fields to the west like heralds of some coming dread. Below the branch stood the frame of an outhouse from which the planks had been stripped for firewood and there hung from the ceiling a hornetnest like a gross paper egg. The tinker returned from the cart with a lantern
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She went to the window and looked out. The ground fell away to a branch where willows burned lime green in the sunset. Dark little birds kept crossing the fields to the west like heralds of some coming dread. Below the branch stood the frame of an outhouse from which the planks had been stripped for firewood and there hung from the ceiling a hornetnest like a gross paper egg. The tinker returned from the cart with a lantern
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They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask
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Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
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Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.
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Don't let strangers touch you. And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against.
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