Given that censors at publishing houses are already undoing the threads of "troublesome" literature and its creators, consider how intent they are on preventing new additions to the elite canon
I am pleasantly surprised to see McCarthy’s work featured prominently at even some of the most woke bookstores where authors like Michel Houellebecq and Roald Dahl have disappeared- among others. Bookstores in Brooklyn continue to erase certain authors who I believe they misunderstand. It may be the impoverishment of language but more likely an impoverishment of emotions. Snowflakes are designed to melt as soon as they confront enough heat. There is fleeting beauty and awe in their structure “not one is exactly the same” but they melt nonetheless and become debris and filth-infused puddles destined for gutters and sewers with only the hopes of making it to a treatment plant. The metaphor is elongated - ad nauseam. It is the existential nausea I do feel in the hell of other people who are possessed with the oppressive mindset that it is okay to sanitize and airbrush literary greatness because of emotional impoverishment and stupidity. Buy your books while you can ... hopefully in analog form ... to avoid the digital bonfires.
I've read Blood Meridian multiple times and, to me, the Judge is Satan. He allows those who ride with him to exercise their free will in joining up with him on his hunt for the Apache, the massacres that follow slowly corrupt everyone involved, leaving only death and misery for the survivors. I would love to see this book turned into a film, though I highly doubt it would be any good as they would change the Judge into some dandified character. Due to his physical characteristics I don't even know who would be able to pull off a role that requires a 7 foot tall bald albino type physique. Also, with regards to the word niggarized, I am beyond glad that someone else out there understands that books are written from within the characters world so if they're using racial epithets, like in all of James Ellroy's novels, it's meant to bring the reader more into that world. If you're writing about white trash from kentucky in the 1950s and didn't use racial epithets it would come off as incredibly fake and not genuine at all.
I am pleasantly surprised to see McCarthy’s work featured prominently at even some of the most woke bookstores where authors like Michel Houellebecq and Roald Dahl have disappeared- among others. Bookstores in Brooklyn continue to erase certain authors who I believe they misunderstand. It may be the impoverishment of language but more likely an impoverishment of emotions. Snowflakes are designed to melt as soon as they confront enough heat. There is fleeting beauty and awe in their structure “not one is exactly the same” but they melt nonetheless and become debris and filth-infused puddles destined for gutters and sewers with only the hopes of making it to a treatment plant. The metaphor is elongated - ad nauseam. It is the existential nausea I do feel in the hell of other people who are possessed with the oppressive mindset that it is okay to sanitize and airbrush literary greatness because of emotional impoverishment and stupidity. Buy your books while you can ... hopefully in analog form ... to avoid the digital bonfires.
I need a cigarette and a whiskey now thank you very much 😊
I read All The Pretty Horses before any of his others. Blood Meridian was a tough reed, but the imagery he created was outstanding.
I've read Blood Meridian multiple times and, to me, the Judge is Satan. He allows those who ride with him to exercise their free will in joining up with him on his hunt for the Apache, the massacres that follow slowly corrupt everyone involved, leaving only death and misery for the survivors. I would love to see this book turned into a film, though I highly doubt it would be any good as they would change the Judge into some dandified character. Due to his physical characteristics I don't even know who would be able to pull off a role that requires a 7 foot tall bald albino type physique. Also, with regards to the word niggarized, I am beyond glad that someone else out there understands that books are written from within the characters world so if they're using racial epithets, like in all of James Ellroy's novels, it's meant to bring the reader more into that world. If you're writing about white trash from kentucky in the 1950s and didn't use racial epithets it would come off as incredibly fake and not genuine at all.
Hernia Sue. Genius!
Why, do you suppose, that McCarthy is largely appealing to older white men? Serious question.
I’ve met several men(not one woman) who upon learning that I’ve read and been blown away by McCarthy are happy for me and I for them.