... and given that I'm currently reading it again, I just want to say "Thank you, Cormac McCarthy" for showing me exactly what a
battle-aura would look like in real life. You have no idea how helpful this was to me.
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Someone should really come up with a Superhuman Effects Calculator, for those times when you absolutely have to know how much a damage a 200-lb superstrong woman would do to the ground with a 90-foot standing jump or what the animation for a humanoid running at Mach 4.35 should look like.