NP but Cormac McCarthy
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 8 09:21:51 CDT 2010
i was reading Broke USA, a look at the businesses that exploit the poor, the
preterites, that have sprung up mostly since Reagan changed the nation.
The Pay-Day Lending biz started in northeastern Tennessee, which is part of
early Cormac McCarthy's Yoknapatawpha County. Novels up to Blood Meridian...
"this corner of the world has long been the kind of place that gives a man elbow
room and the ethical leeway to make a
living any way he sees fit. Grundy County, to the west, had long been known
throughout the region as the car-stripping
capital of the South..............and also known for "shade-tree
mechanics"....men who made their money rolling back odometers
for unscrupulous auto dealers........they would also work all day banging out
dents and installing new upholstery, whatever it took
to make a car seem to have less real mileage"....---Broke, USA....
Cormac's deep understanding of the poor, unmoored---from the Old Country, from
the American dream; from the moral order "ethical leeway"---people extends to
the present....
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