Blood Meridian

[rich]

I would try Suttree, Joseph--a much better book than Blood Meridian (which
I highly respect and would recommend but do not love).

rich

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> First step to get out of hole, stop digging. First step to cooling down,
> stop starting fires.  We want the evolution of the species to require the
> sum total of human genius but what does that mean when so much skill has
> been developed for burning down the house.
>
> There is a certain kind of gnosticism that sees this as a hell planet
> ruled by deception.  In such a world fiends have a supernatural advantage.
> McCarthy seems to waver between something like that and a kind of grim
> survivalism. His is a mind I don’t care to visit ever again despite the
> visceral prose style.
>
>
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