NP but Cormac McCarthy

[Ian Livingston]

> 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....

As an addendum to that, I will gladly recommend Laurie Anderson's
recent cd, Homeland. It is a deeply artistic gaze at the decline in
American society in recent years, besides being musically new, edgy
and beautiful.

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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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