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Shamus

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2021.04.24 11:16

Excerpt from Suttree by Cormac McCarthy.

He bought three five

hundred yard spools of nylon trotline and spent two days piecing them with their droppers and leads and hooks. The third day he put out his lines and that night in his shanty with the oil lamp lit and his supper eaten he sat in the chair listening to the river, the newspaper open across his lap, and an uneasy peace came over him, a strange kind of contentment. Small graylooking moths orbited the hot cone of glass before him. He set back the plate with the dimestore silver and folded his hands on the table. A beetle kept crashing into the windowscreen and dropping to the deck below to whirr and rise and crash again.
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  • Shamus 2021.04.24 11:19

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    Thank you for listening. If you enjoyed this you might also enjoy my new reading of William Blake's A Poison Tree. https://youtu.be/lk3sBX77ZR4
  • HH 2021.04.24 11:27

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    ✨✨✨
  • malvina ॐ 2021.04.24 15:57

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    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
  • Kylie 2021.04.24 22:43

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    🌻
  • Balnur Smart 2021.04.25 11:05

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    I don't understand what about it 🙄🤔
  • Shamus 2021.04.25 13:50

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    @Balnur Smart It's about a simple life of living alone in a small shack, catching fish and cooking them, and sitting calmly by the lamp at night.

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