NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

Perry Noid coolwithdoc at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 07:26:01 CST 2015


I just finished reading that for the first time last week. Had read the
Road and No Country, was underwhelmed, and was not expecting to be wowed
like I was with Blood Meridian. I was expecting it to be another over
praised novel that did not meet expectations but it far exceeded mine.

That *is* Blood Meridian right?

On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the
> round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein
> they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena
> were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone
> nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of
> these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole
> on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and
> nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all
> preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with
> unguessed kinship.
>
> I'm sure some of you will recognize this...
>
> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>
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