The ugly truth of science

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Ignoring the insult (had to look up "BYW" in the Urban Dictionary), I 
just wanna say that neither the technical details nor the control 
through science are thematic in /The Road/. The disaster could have just 
as well been another Tunguska. Modern science as such is important to 
Pynchon, not to McCarthy who wanted to write a quasi-biblical apocalypse 
for the 21st century. How the fictional situation arose is largely 
irrelevant. In no way McCarthy does unfold an actual criticism on 
science the way Pynchon does.

On 15.06.2013 17:16, alice wellintown wrote:
> McCarthy does delve into this, BYW. _The Road_ is set after some kind 
> of holocaust that burns the Earth to a crisp.
>

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