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I’m regretting not reading on kindle so I can copy and paste as I go. Just so many genius passages just out of nowhere he hits you with something (when looking 👀 get the old pictures: The landscapes, old backdrops, redundant too, recurring unchanged as if they inhabited another medium than the dry pilgrims shored up on them. Blind Mobil in the earths map cast up in an eye link between becoming and done. I am, I am. Also not a direct quote but the passage of suttree going out and getting shitfaced and waking up hungover was impressionistic in how I felt maybe a little too well what that was like
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Arson Daily posted:I'm about a third of the way through the book and I'm loving it. There was an unintentional bit of comedy when McCarthy is describing the scene when Suttree is on the train and its all dreary and dark and the last line of the paragraph is something to the effect of "and the rain fell into a freshly dug grave" which to me was hilarious because you just got done reading this long paragraph of how depressing everything was and then just as a kind of last kick to the feels he's gotta add "oh yeah and somebody's DEAD TOO!" Idk thats probably just me but it got a laugh. I just read this scene and visceral. Yes. Literally. I was reminded of the knife fight scenes in the border books where the violence feels the same way. Have you guys ever been knocked out in a fight? Or boxed or whatever? There’s this odd sense of peace in the senselessness of it where once there was this high tension of anxiety and anger and fear then all at once the ground. Full sensual experience of how rough and hot the concrete is. That’s what the violence in these novels elicits for me.
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Jul 14, 2023 19:14
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Does zlib work again?
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quote:How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it. I’ve never really connected with any of McCarthy’s characters. The plots aren’t what I’m here for. It’s this these little prose poems tucked in here and there.
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Jul 16, 2023 04:14
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I have a nominee for the most cormac McCarthy of all paragraphs:quote:Suttree went on. A mute and shapeless derelict would stop him with a puffy hand run forth from the cavernous sleeve of an armycoat. Ive been thinking about mccarthys use of cafes and lunch counters in his books. I’ve read his books backwards by publish date I think but it makes it stand out to me. You have these characters living on the margins but so much description is of nature you’d think they were out in the wilderness. Especially in the scene where they suttree is loving off in the woods and he comes across the hunter with the crossbow, the hunter is bewildered and says “bro the road is like a mile that way and where does he go? A cafe. The return to dependency on civilization and particularly women’s domestic care. Bro is living on Walden pond and getting his laundry done by his mom. Proust Malone fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 20, 2023 15:43
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Gene…. Gene…
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Jul 24, 2023 20:39
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AngusPodgorny posted:I just reached this quote that I think sums up the novel pretty well: "But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse, only Suttree didnt say so." What gets me is how entirely self inflicted Suttree’s misery is. He’s alienated from what is implied is probably a upper middle class family. He deliberately withdraws from opportunity but for what? If it were more autobiographical there would be at least the suffering for his art, but here Suttree suffers for….complete self loathing? Is it that he cares for all these figures of the underworld? That he’d rather be a figure of respect in McAnally than a reprobate in the normie culture. Maybe he’s gay?
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Jul 27, 2023 18:51
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He represents the entrepreneurial spirit in us all. Also we’re all dumbasses.
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Jul 28, 2023 03:41
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You can’t deny the man is resourceful and innovative. Get him to Palo Alto in a Patagonia vest and he’d walk away with series A funding. He’s disrupting the pay phone industry.
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Enfys posted:I'm not too far in, but the part where Blue spends a century writing a letter using the rings of a tree just floored me so much that I had to stop for a bit to process all my feelings. I have finished yet but I really liked this but too, but then there’s another bit where blue is talking about how nice is it to be so deep undercover that going for a walk in the forest isn’t sus and now I’m thinking how the gently caress are they finding the time away to write a letter in tree rings
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Bilirubin posted:please feel free to start to provide suggestions for next month's book! Haven’t touched it yet but been hearing v good reviews for North Woods by Daniel Mason
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McSpankWich posted:I kind of felt like since they were presumably raised in a loveless combat based environment from infancy, that any kind of connection other than "go kill that guy" would cause strong feelings, even if not warranted in our reality. It's also possible that their names are lazy for the same reason, why name a weapon with any thought other than something utilitarian (see 007, etc) In the scene where theyre at the eastern front, and one other place, the regular people are described in a way like they’re just props. You know they’re going to die so intervening to kill them earlier carries no moral weight. What does it matter if they’re scared or not? What does it matter if you ride with the Golden Horde to burn a town? Blue or red to the other then is the to real person in their existence who shared their experience. I wondered why in a love story they didn’t explore what is meant to be married in deep cover over year while in love with the opposite agent?
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Recently finished North Woods and yes, the beauty of the prose got me. I was prepared for the plot to be gimmicky but I was sold by the third section. I also (though not a woman) feel like he writes women characters very well.
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