NP - Cormac McCarthy - Who's Will

[Charles Albert]

Cormac is a bit of a bitch..

To some degree I take this as an occasion to paint a portrait of a horse in
words...he is a master wordsmith and not beyond the occasional solo.

The description of the looming battle reflected in a duststorm in Blood
Meridian is one of my favorite discreet passages in English...

love,

cfa



On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 2:27 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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