NP - Cormac McCarthy - Who's Will

[David Morris]

If cfa is correct, “who is” would be a different tense of “I Am.”

David Morris

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:23 PM Charles Albert <cfalbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Note also that "who's" is not the possessive case of "who"
>
> It is a contraction of "who is"..
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>
> love,
>
> cfa
>
> 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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