"He walked out in the grey light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate world. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like groundfoxes in their cover." (McCarthy, 110)
In this quote, the desolate world seems to be indifferent to the man. To him, the earth continues to revolve, "cold" and "relentless". I looked up the word "intestate", and it describes a person who has died and has not left a will. So the man is saying the earth died, and did not leave a will. Therefore everyone is fighting over everything and killing each other because they do not know what to do. People always need order, otherwise there is just chaos. The two hunted animals could represent the boy and the man, how they are just moving along, always scared, in this desolate world.
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