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“It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. “Flat,” she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge.
— Abigail Padgett
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "“It occurred to Bo that Texas songs were always about the sky because there simply wasn't anything else. No hill, no mound, not even a ripple of earth to break the dizzying sweep of the eye toward infinity. “Flat,” she decided, was a term insufficient to the terrain. It was more than that. It was actually a negative pull, an inverted gasp of ground beneath a firmament so boundless it might threaten the sanity of even those who weren't already pushing the edge." in the context of "https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/60183.Abigail_Padgett" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Abigail Padgett
Mary Abigail Padgett (born May 13, 1942) is an American author of mystery novels who features in Great Women Mystery Writers.
About Abigail Padgett
Mary Abigail Padgett (born May 13, 1942) is an American author of mystery novels who features in Great Women Mystery Writers.
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