NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

[Mark Kohut]

What if Home Alone had been written by Cormac McCarthy? Hilarious
piece from @Awl, "The Home." http://bit.ly/1SXyA7V

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:30 AM,  <msacha1121 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I knew what I was reading halfway through the first line. Damn what a book.
> Some of the really wordy sentences can strain (cf. Suttree) but they're
> beautiful and barren all the same.
>
> The lack of sex scenes seems to me a McCarthy staple. Early on they mostly
> figure as perversion; later in his career he tries his hand at a few  of the
> traditional kind and, well, he's not very good at them. And to that his
> characters are alienated from everyone and themselves and the ground under
> their feet - not a suave, branded alienation a la Sartre but the kind of
> thing that shakes you to the bones. Female characters in general are less
> prominent throughout his books and he seems to be trying to correct that
> with his latest, coming out in a year or so.
>
> There's definitely something to be made with the judge and the "idiot", but
> I'm at work, maybe later...
>
> On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Moby Dick was at the front of my mind throughout. Instead of man hunting a
> whale, and everything that represents, man is hunting man. I'm sure u all
> have dissected this one like an injun scalp but since I haven't really
> discussed it with anyone I'll say this in passing to get it out. I think the
> lack of sex scenes was certainly indicative of something because we know sex
> occurs in the book. And I would like to know what anyone thinks of the
> idiot, his cage and his chain to the judge and why the judge rescues him.
> One of the rare appearances of the fairer sex is when he is liberated from
> his cage. And just a random thought: when reading the passage where the
> judge is walking around with the idiot on the chain my mind seemed to conjur
> Dracula and Renfield. Was wondering what you smarter folk took from that
> whole interaction.
>
> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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...
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