/lit/ - Literature

>>1674782
You're just angry that you will never produce something as clear and revelatory as this in your lifetime whereas this takes about a sip or two of coffee for me to write out

>>1674785
admit what, that Doombear was essentially saying that some video games work better under some hardware than others? Big fucking deal

I've always felt that having a suitable or non-suitable environment can really stimulate or inhibit ones intellectual development and drive.

>Last book read
Paradise Lost
Twilight of the Idols

>Currently Reading
Leaves of Grass

>Next book(s) in line
not sure

Re-posting

Post an original(?) interpretation you've been sitting on. Bonus points if you elaborate it. Hopefully this will give people a few original ideas or trolling material.

The Road is a re-telling of the biblical story of Abraham's sacrificing Isaac in a Kierkegaardian vein; mccarthy creates a story in which the problem and true demands of faith are brought to the fore by stripping the context of any middle ground (the blood cults represent the extreme logical outcome of the aesthetes and their false god, people who the father and son come across who aren't hostile in the novel are described in a strongly religious context, the landscape itself is stripped of ny complications as a wasteland). The fathers's consistent inability to sacrifice his son in the face of the hopeless absurdity of existence (instead of sacrificing the son on request of God, an ironic twist contra Kierkegaard who posits absurdity as the only thing that legitimates faith) is a strong commentary and indictment on the demands of true, kierkegaardian faith on the individual.