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hobbez posted:Personally, I think the JFK stuff and other derailments are fun. I guess overall I liked The Passenger significantly more than the thread on the whole. If this is C-tier McCarthy I am just so fuckin pumped to get into his S-tier stuff! Blood meridian has sky rocketed up the reading list I was really struck by the bartender in the final chapter talking about how his brother was lucky to have died in the Spanish Civil War believing in something. In comparison to that, the post-WW2 world the rest of the characters navigate is so cold and empty. Even the JFK stuff plays into that for how passionless and pathetic Klein's narration of the assassination is--the ringleader of the conspiracy is right there and no one cares, it doesn't matter at all. There's a nod to Libra with all DeLillo has to say about conspiracy and identity, but it's only to be dismissed--nope, the Kennedys just hosed around with the mob and found out. Has anyone worked out what the link is between McCarthy's interest in the unconscious and Alicia's horts/the Kid? Is that something that gets alluded to in Stella Maris? Haven't gotten to that one yet.
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