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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

What It Means

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.