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Criminal Minded posted:Passenger, although I'm saving Stella Maris, as I've spent the past couple months-ish since first finishing The Passenger revisiting all of McCarthy's other work, to better appreciate and contextualize the new ones. I tried to do this over the last couple months but I honestly couldn’t hang. I couldn’t handle another knife fight description and I think I’m one and done with the road. A friend told me that if I thought the border trilogy was intense then I’d really like outer dark. I had to tap out. I’ve since cleansed my palette and im fired up for the passenger.
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Not sure if I can’t wait sixteen years to hear an old man tell me a joke I read on fwd:fwd:fwd: guess I’m loving nuts
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How do you feel about the world being almost 90 Mr McCarthy?quote:what really threatens the scofflaw is not the just society but the decaying one. It is here that he finds himself becoming slowly indistinguishable from the citizenry. As for myself again if I cant be decorum’s sworn enemy while savoring its fruits I simply see no place for me at all. And how do you feel about the post Trump America? quote:Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning. Mr McCarthy, do you think the two parties can compromise in order to avoid catastrophe or are we headed to a second civil war? quote:It’s sure to be interesting. When the onset of universal night is finally acknowledged as irreversible even the coldest cynic will be astonished at the celerity with which every rule and stricture shoring up this creaking edifice is abandoned and every aberrancy embraced.
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Oct 28, 2022 05:05
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I get the feeling the author is looking deeply at his own mortality surrounded by physicists on a land haunted by the atom bomb.
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Nov 4, 2022 04:51
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We’re going to find out that Cormac has been holed up at the sante fe institute because he can’t afford rent after all his assets were seized for back child support. Also his irl sister was a dime. 
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:The book’s great. What were people disappointed about? Yeah. The chapters with the kid were tedious, but tedious in an intentional dream logic sort of way. Plus I’m a sucker for crude puns and malapropisms. And am I crazy, or is it pretty much explicitly the case that The Kid is Bobby and Alicia’s child? That was my first guess too. I’m holding out judgement until I finish Stella Maris. My least favorite thing is I don’t really understand the purpose of each of the supporting characters in New Orleans with whom much of the dialog occurs. They don’t seem distinct enough to make sense. Ill wait though Also, I know the kid is supposed to be a thalidomide baby but I kept picturing him as: 
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Nov 9, 2022 05:18
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Do y’all think that he is the missing passenger from the plane wreck?
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Nov 19, 2022 03:47
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Proust Malone posted:Do y’all think that he is the missing passenger from the plane wreck? So maybe now the passenger is a metaphor for the opening of the cave after the crucifixion. Stella Maris is Mary is Alicia. Bobby on life support is the pieta…
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Dec 11, 2022 00:20
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Flutch posted:Absolutely same. So what do you think the kid is a symbol of?
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Mar 24, 2023 18:36
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Who would you all cast as the judge in a film? I’ve always pictured him halfway between bald Jeff bridges and apocalypse now marlon Brando
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Mar 30, 2023 19:14
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I think a BM movie would be mediocre because the thing that makes the book magic isn’t the plot, it’s the prose.
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Apr 5, 2023 20:44
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escape artist posted:So, about that new sentence... Here's hoping that his editor has a collection of his letters or unfinished stuff that they're going to publish posthumously. I'd love to read his drafts.
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Jun 14, 2023 19:00
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Finally got around to Suttree and so far I’m loving it. I’m putting it right behind Blood Meridian.
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Jul 11, 2023 22:12
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I think I’m ready for a re-read. Would anyone be interested in a chapter a week type thread discussion?
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snoremac posted:Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my changsent. I popped into this thread to share a bit I was thinking of and how the passenger / SM are as autobiographical as suttree imo. quote:I think you’ve some idea. I know that you think we’re very different, me and thee. My father was a country storekeeper and yours a fabricator of expensive devices that make a loud noise and vaporize people. But our common history transcends much. I know certain days of your childhood. All but weeping with loneliness. Coming upon a certain book in the library and clutching it to you. Carrying it home. Some perfect place to read it. Under a tree perhaps. Beside a stream. Flawed youths of course. To prefer a world of paper. Rejects. But we know another truth, dont we Squire? And of course it’s true that any number of these books were penned in lieu of burning down the world—which was their author’s true desire. But the real question is are we few the last of a lineage? Will children yet to come harbor a longing for a thing they cannot even name? The legacy of the word is a fragile thing for all its power, but I know where you stand, Squire. I know that there are words spoken by men ages dead that will never leave your heart. Remembering how the last years of his life were spent
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I picked up no country for old men. I’ve read everything else but this and outer dark. One thing that I see here and especially in the border books (is this a fourth border book?). Is that McCarthy is really good at describing what it’s like to be wounded and bleeding. The numbness, the shock, the progressively more And more blood, the pain only when you’re doing something particular… i was trying to write a story where the viewpoint character loses a fist fight and I realized I was just copying McCarthy…. Probably not the first dudebro story to do that.
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I think there’s an essay to be written somewhere about our boy Cormac’s relationship to cafes. Our detached masculine characters off in the wilderness always seem to find one.
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