NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

Keith Davis kbob42 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 07:29:26 CST 2015


Yes, page 247.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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