Cormac McCarthy's The Counselor
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Sun Aug 24 05:03:21 CDT 2014
is free on my TV so I watched it. You won't forget it easily if you do.
But, Pynchon-relevant are two bits....One, first, is Pynchon the first
writer to put car-fucking into a novel? (The car plays a key role
in Gatsby and Harry Crews had a novel about a guy eating one) but
McCarthy ratchets up Pynchon's V. bit with an incredible scene wherein
Cameron Diaz fucks--spread-eagled, humping sensuously the windshield of a car.
Later in the movie as she talks to a guy about his options, she says, "there's
the excluded middle'.....
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