NP - Cormac McCarthy - Who's Will

[Charles Albert]

Note also that "who's" is not the possessive case of "who"

It is a contraction of "who is"..


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On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 10:07 AM Lealdo de Góis Andrade <
lealdo.gois.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is from McCarthy's All The Pretty Horses:
>
> "He’d ride sometimes clear to the upper end of the laguna before the horse
> would even stop trembling and he spoke constantly to it in Spanish in
> phrases almost biblical repeating again and again the strictures of a yet
> untabled law. Soy comandante de las yeguas, he would say, yo y yo sólo ...
> While inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated
> heart pumped of who’s will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in
> their massive blue convolutions of who’s will and the stout thighbones and
> knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed
> and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who’s will all sheathed
> and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning
> groundmist and the head turning side to side and the great slavering
> keyboard of his teeth and the hot globes of his eyes where the world
> burned."
>
> Would any enlightened soul please help me understand what McCarthy's is
> trying to convey here by 'who's will'? This left me puzzled.
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