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Prose of the Week: February 28, 2010

“Annular forms of lichens fiery green that sprawled across the stones like tiny jade volcanoes. He broke one in his hands, frangible, mauvebrown and kidneycolored. He'd forgotten he was hungry. Annular forms of lichens fiery green that sprawled across the stones like tiny jade volcanoes. He broke one in his hands, frangible, mauvebrown and kidneycolored. He'd forgotten he was hungry Annular forms of lichens fiery green that sprawled across the stones like tiny jade volcanoes. He broke one in his hands, frangible, mauvebrown and kidneycolored. He'd forgotten he was hungry. Annular forms of lichens fiery green that sprawled across the stones like tiny jade volcanoes. He broke one in his hands, frangible, mauvebrown and kidneycolored. He'd forgotten he was hungry." By Cormac McCarthy, from his novel Suttree (1979)