NP - Cormac McCarthy - Who's Will

[Mark Kohut]

I read it as possessive as my gloss made evident.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:25 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"..
> >
> >
> > 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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