I dont get it
War... War never changes...
>>25288441Almost no one does.
the west is le uniquely evil or something gay like that
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>Humanity is...le violent!>Life is....le cruel!>Existence is...le meaningless!McCarthy sure was lucky that he was the most gifted prose stylist of his generation, because his entire oeuvre could be summed up on 1 half of an index card.
>>25290470>McCarthy sure was lucky that he was the most gifted prose stylist of his generation
War is le BAD
>>25289094The west is just normal bad, Mexico itself is in fact a cursed bloodthirsty evil land. As for the OP, it’s just an entertaining story. Nothing more or less.
>>25288441do not ever go to texas
>>25288441All the poor man ever wanted to do was to make books easier to read by cleaning up those weird little marks dotting up the page. The result? His reputation tarnished, his grave desecrated, and his name spat and rode on.
>>25291268>All the poor man ever wanted to do was to make books easier to read by cleaning up those weird little marks dotting up the page and the result was his reputation tarnished and his grave desecrated and his name spat and rode on.Honor thy father you filthy philistine
>>25291219>>25291259all of texas was originally mexico so this cursed bloody land includes texas i reckon
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>>25291054Gordon Lish would ironically agree with that assessment.> I read Brodkey’s novel, A Party of Animals, in manuscript, over the course of one night, starting as soon as I got home from my office, having been given the manuscript by Bob Gottlieb, not by Brodkey, whose editor I was officially at the time. I took the manuscript home that night, started reading it about seven and, despite the distractions of family life, stayed with it, I suppose, pretty incessantly until ten that morning, having completed the reading of well over a thousand pages and coming to the view that this was the surpassing novel by an American of the century. I would now amend that view, holding Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian for that post, for that distinction, if my reading of these things has any value at all.>interviewer: But the fact is Blood Meridian is beyond the capabilities of ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths percent of us. Is it a sin that neither you nor I will produce a Blood Meridian?>Lish: It is, Rob. It is. For me, it is. If we take the view that the only reason to do this is to somehow make a reply, make a reasonable reply to the unreasonable character of existence, to time, because that’s what animates me, then we’re in the realm of ultimate matters. We’re in the realm of absolute matters, and it’s precisely that McCarthy does what ninety-nine and forty-four one hundredths percent cannot do that makes it the only thing to be done. It’s necessity itself to somehow seek to surpass McCarthy.>Interviewer: But aren’t we doomed to failure if we realize at the outset that we cannot achieve Blood Meridian?>Lish: But somebody did. But somebody did, you see. Somebody did. A man did it. Somebody wrote Moby Dick one has to remind oneself.
>>25291324Yeah like setting out to write a novel and talking about that and of about novel writing in general about blood meridian or moby dick or pedro paramo are useful cause that’s like such a grand endeavor in some ways to write a novel
Why do people keep saying Holden raped The Kid and that other kid?The book isn't explicit about it and I don't see how it's implied either.
>>25292317He raped his sister, Phoebe.
>>25292372kek
