Was he on a mission to write the most exhaustingly dense prose without using any dependent clauses?
>>24956219One could, after a protracted and almost ceremonially circuitous perambulation through the briar patch of lexical extravagance, rhetorical grandiosity, and ostentatiously sesquipedalian flourish, reasonably arrive at the impression that the author in question was not merely composing prose but erecting an impregnable bastion of verbal density, a swollen palimpsest of philological excess whose primary function appeared to be the exhaustion of the reader rather than the transmission of meaning, such that every syllable felt deliberately freighted, every phrase calcified with self importance, and every paragraph swollen into a bloated testament of deliberate opacity, all of which, when finally reduced by ruthless distillation to its irreducible semantic residue, resolves itself into a single, incontrovertible, and profoundly anticlimactic affirmation, namely yes.
It's airport slop compared to blood meridian
>>24956255You have read neither
>>24956243Despite the diction here, this is way easier to read. It's something about his grammar. You start a sentence with all your bearings in place, but by the end the antecedents don't make immediate sense. Add to it the knurled and archaic diction and it can be tiring to read at length.
>>24956272well if one were so inclined toward magniloquent expansion and discursive ornamentation, elect to unfurl that modest observation into a gently condescending yet broadly inclusive meditation on the endlessly variegated habits of human expression, acknowledging with a faint shrug of rhetorical resignation that certain individuals, whether by upbringing, temperament, affectation, or some ineffable convergence of circumstance, manifest their thoughts in patterns of speech so florid, circuitous, or idiosyncratically overwrought that they become less a vehicle for efficient communication and more a performative exhibition of verbal identity, a phenomenon neither inherently virtuous nor intrinsically blameworthy but merely descriptive of the peculiar ways in which people inhabit language, a conclusion that, once all the curlicues have been painstakingly traced and the surplus verbiage ceremonially set aside, amounts to nothing more or less than the calmly stated recognition that, well, my friend, that's just how some people talk. namely southerners. particularly, wannabe southern gentleman. that is to say, a true southern gentleman largely gets this peculiar linguistic rhythm correct because he was born into it. the wannabes, like our poor, poor cormac, can sometimes come close but never quite get there because it is not of their very soul, you see?
>>24956283Why are you writing like Henry James?
>>24956270Suttree is undeniably one of McCarthy's most "normal" novels and not exhausting in the slightest
>>24956286It's ridiculous how much made up bs people spam here
I have more respect for someone who consumes capeshit comics than someone who reads McCarthy.
