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Cormac McCarthy Has Died

by peruvian on 6/13/23, 7:27 PM with 3 comments

  • by alach11 on 6/13/23, 7:57 PM

    “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”

    Cormac McCarthy's writing affected me on such a deep level as a young adult. I had never realized prose could have that affect on me. He will be missed.

  • by hocaoglv on 6/14/23, 3:37 AM

    “If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”

  • by blueridge on 6/13/23, 8:01 PM