/lit/ - Literature

>>22925582
I don't care about opening lines because we're just getting acquainted and I don't rely on first impressions to define my opinion of a book's character. Here's where blood meridian ascended the literary throne for me:
>They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them. The shadows of the smallest stones lay like pencil lines across the sand and the shapes of the men and their mounts advanced elongate before them like strands of the night from which they’d ridden, like tentacles to bind them to the darkness yet to come

It's just so otherworldly, so wholly different from anything I've ever read before. The feelings and pictures these lines (and many others like them throughout the work) evoke set blood meridian apart for me. Moby Dick is a fine book, but it doesn't make me want to be a better writer. McCarthy stokes a fire inside me. Pic related.

>>22193390
I‘m really gonna need some context here

>>22146815
Reminder: this is canon