Blood Meridian

[rich]

i'm too old for Blood Meridian, now. I went thru a phase. Suttree sticks
with me still

and yet too young for Pynchon still. my anger breeds ephemeral
rich

On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:20 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Suttree vs Blood Meridian?  Tastes differ, it seems.
>
> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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