NP but Cormac McCarthy

[Ian Livingston]

Sure. Why not? Ideas are not limited by geographic, social or temporal
bounds. They shift constantly across landscapes and milieux. You can
find Yoknapatawpha County anywhere in the U.S. today, even downtown
Anyurb.

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:29 AM,  <leevyne at aol.com> wrote:
> Is a literate person really supposed to take seriously a chain that begins
> with Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi being transposed to
> northeastern Tennessee?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; Brad Andrews
> <braden.andrews at gmail.com>; mark levine <leevyne at aol.com>; Pete Cleland
> <pmcleland2003 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Sun, Aug 8, 2010 1:04 pm
> Subject: Re: NP but Cormac McCarthy
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> "liber enim librum aperit."
>



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