NP - Cormac McCarthy - Who's Will

[David Morris]

I  really like cfa’s take, but I’d never have guessed it myself.  The horse
embodying divine strength is compelling, and McCarthy would be the one to
go there.

David Morris

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 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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