McCarthy Quote

[Bonnie Surfus (ENG)]

On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, RICHARD ROMEO wrote:

> End of Chapter 13 not 5 (sorry) of _Blood Meridian_:
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> "They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but 
> before they were even quite out of sight of the city they had turned 
> their tragic mounts to the west and they rode infatuate and half fond 
> toward the red demise of that day, toward the evening lands and the 
> distant PANDEMONIUM OF THE SUN". (MY CAPITALS).
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This, "POTS," was a title borrowed by John Laroquette--his character's 
novel?  Or one of [his] Pynchon's, or something like that.> > 
> I guess we can rule out TRP's next book to be this.  It would be like 
> finding a book written in the 60's with gravity's rainbow on one of the 
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> Richard Romeo
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> Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
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> The Foundation Center
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> 212-807-2417
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> rromeo at fdncenter.org
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