LOL A SCARED CHILD IN A DYSTOPIAN HELL WORLD FEARS DEATH THIS IS HILARIOUS

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No it isn't. I have no idea who you're referring to or what this passage is from

Yes
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This is pretty accurate to how people talk. Not always soliloquies or diatribes, just talking. McCarthy’s overall body of work is meant to be read aloud.

There is an undercurrent of metafictional aspects to his books that benefit from this “talking around a campfire” style. His stories are about storytelling. And you will smoothly navigate his writing once you internalize this realization.

Blood Meridian, for example: it’s a story. But the narrator’s account is incomplete: things are described, but we are not told why these descriptions are meaningful. But then the Judge appears and speaks to the reader indirectly, through his speeches toward the illiterate fools of the Glanton gang. His words are not for them: he is teaching us, the reader, how to engage with the narration.

Take another example, The Crossing: the overarching narrative of the book is that the characters within it are trying to find the narrative that weaves their world. Stories within stories, a search for meaning that inevitably leads to a search for God, and a question of God’s nature. The ex-priest declares that “rightly heard all stories are one” and his entire narration is an attempt to devise a dialectic that would accommodate a possibly evil God. His argument hinges on the role of the witness (aka the reader, aka Billy, aka all characters within the book). For anything to exist, he says, its existence has to be verified by a witness and since more things in the world exist without our knowledge than with it, there must be an ultimate witness that sees all that we cannot, so that everything may exist. His conception is that of an ignorant God and deterministic universe.

This is vindicated with how the book finishes: the Trinity test. The driving idea behind the atom bomb was Einstein's famous equation E=MC2, and the main theory behind the equation is that of special relativity. That of relative reality. The book ends with the symbol of a world that the ex-priest could not conceive of brought to reality and verified. Witness over absolute truth.