Cormac McCarthy: "Dia berbaring mendengarkan tetesan air di hutan. Bed...

"Dia berbaring mendengarkan tetesan air di hutan. Bedrock, ini. Dingin dan kesunyian. Abu dunia akhir membawa angin suram dan temporal ke sana kemari di kehampaan. Dilakukan dan tersebar dan dibawa lagi. Semuanya terlepas dari pantainya. Tidak didukung di udara pucat. Didukung oleh nafas, gemetar dan singkat. Kalau saja hatiku batu."

--- Cormac McCarthy

Versi Bahasa Inggris

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.