Cormac McCarthy, "The Road". Illustration for the October issue of Playboy magazine

«He fetched brushes with help of two fancy old brooms and attached those to the truck so that those could sweep all the knots and small wood forehead of the wheels, and, having placed a little boy atop of his truck, he himself much alike a dog sled drover set on a iron cross, and so they started down from a hill, managing the downhill ride and making body movements on the turns right as they were professional bobsleigh drivers.»