NP - The Leftovers

[Johnny Marr]

My feelings towards McCarthy happen to mirror a number of my friends'
opinions on TRP - I have immense respect for his unarguable literary
prowess, but little desire to read his work.

On Thursday, December 17, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:

> You'll have no invective from me. I'm actually surprised it took this long
> for someone to say something critical about Mccarthy.
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:28 AM, <kelber at mindspring.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kelber at mindspring.com');>> wrote:
>
>> I've been following the discussion on Cormac McCarthy - and have to weigh
>> in as not being a fan. Admittedly, I've only read Blood Meridian and seen
>> the movie version of No Country For Old Men, which may not be a
>> representative sampling. But I read his primary theme as Evil, and Man's
>> need to reckon with or otherwise atone for or own up to it. Yes, the
>> language is poetic, but it doesn't send my brain into thought-provoking
>> areas. If the Judge is a representation of the Evil That Men Do, well, at
>> the end of it all, so what? [Pause, to get pelted with invective]
>>
>> I recently binge-watched the first two seasons (a third and final one is
>> in the offing) of the HBO series, The Leftovers. And in some ways, it does
>> a more interesting job of setting up a metaphor for Man reckoning with
>> Death. The premise of the show is that, one day, 2% of the wor'd's
>> population randomly disappears, and those left behind must make sense of
>> it. Is it the Rapture, a punishment, a conspiracy or just a random,
>> meaningless event? The point of the show is that there will never be an
>> answer. A strange cult that arises seems (to me) to be a stand-in for
>> organized religion.
>>
>> Anyone seen it?
>>
>> Laura
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
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