--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: He’d stop and lean on the cart and the…" description: "\"“He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in t..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/cormac-mccarthy-181_time_he-d-stop-and-lean-on-the-cart-and-the-b_437370.jpg" --- # He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and… ![“He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle.” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/cormac-mccarthy-181_time_he-d-stop-and-lean-on-the-cart-and-the-b_437370.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/cormac-mccarthy-181_time_he-d-stop-and-lean-on-the-cart-and-the-b_437370.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/cormac-mccarthy-181_time_he-d-stop-and-lean-on-the-cart-and-the-b_437370.jpg) > ““He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would raise his weeping eyes and see him standing there in the road looking back at him from some unimaginable future, glowing in that waste like a tabernacle.”” [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. 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