/lit/ - Literature

>>22143710
no sticky? Lit is fucking dead

>>22143710
It was the vax

>>22143710
>It's actually real
WTF

>>22143710
Not Corncob Yecarthy!

very sad but i'm sure he went peacefully, fucker lived an incredible life

This fucking sucks

>>22143710
Did he manage to finish "The Passenger"?

>>22143710
holy shit it's real fuck

sticky immediately
jesus RIP

>>22143710
It's obviously unfortunate, but at 89 we can hardly be surprised. He was able to accomplish much more than most and is survived by a great body of work and legacy

my favorite Cormac moment was when he appeared in the Mike Tyson Mysteries

>>22143710
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>22143723
He’s passing now himself

Bros, I am fucking sad.

Holy shit its real

So he won't write the blood meridian adaptation?

At least we still have Yeezy

>Tranny Ted
>Corncob

He's next, if he's not already gone.

>>22143747
Don Delillo is next

Good.

Damn.
I just finished The Passenger yesterday

Damn, /lit/ is gonna go crazy about this (more than Ted?).
RIP

WOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOO i am the ghost of cormac mccarthy, i demand a sticky

>>22143754
I expect the Chicano community to prepare a statement.

He said that he would never die.

F

>>22143772
now he is just an old dead white man to woke faggots.

SERIOUSLY? RIP

Posting before sticky

Well 89 is a pretty good run.

"Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. So everything is necessary."

Anyone got any favourite quotes?

>>22143710
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

One of my favourite English language novelists. I'm glad he at least got to publish The Passenger and Stella Maris as his final works before he passed.

>>22143787
The dialogue about God and death with the Ragpicker in Suttree

F

>>22143710
FUCK YOU NOBEL PRIZE KEKS> ITS TOO LATE NOW
YOU FUCKING GLOBHOMO FREAKS
RIP 'mac Mc'

>>22143787
>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent

remember boys and girls, its all for naught. no matter how great you are, no matter your acclaim or accolades, no matter the scope of your vision, you fucking DIE and its ALL GONE, FOREVER AND EVER.

f
also not stickied wtf

>force your pregnant wife to work and support your neet ass while you live in a hovel and pretend to be a roughing it despite having rich parents
Bravo charles (his real name)

>no sticky

>>22143787
They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.

Sticky!!

>>22143810
kek

>>22143710
Another life taken in his prime. Fauci has blood on his hands.

>>22143802
> force your pregnant wife to work and support your neet ass while you live in a hovel and pretend to be a roughing it despite having rich parents

Pretty based ngl

>>22143798
His literary glory will make him live on for at least a couple of hundred years though, unlike normies.

>>22143710
well at least he got to see his books become mainstream.
>>22143754
i heard some people get mad that he didn't win the nobel and another American won because he probably will be dead before it's the turn for Americans to win it again.

>>22143824
John Green tier.

>>22143710
RIP. Both Blood Meridian and Suttree are my personal favorite of his novels

>>22143802
Following in the footsteps of two of his major influences, Milton and Melville, who also forced their female family members to endure hardships for the sake of their artistic works

>>22143710
vaxxed people die.

>>22143787
Not a quote, but his dialogue between Sheriff Bell and his wife where Bell relays his two dreams of his father. Not his best book, but that passage always gets me a little, knowing I too will have a moment where my father will die and I will have a dream of my father giving me his parting gift.

>89
He was a fucking kid

Shit, man.
Everybody's fucking dying.

>>22143715
>>22143727
>>22143764
>>22143784
>>22143807
>>22143819
Anyone else remember the Eric Carle sticky?

>>22143787
In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground. He uses an implement with two handles and he chucks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rocks which God has put there. On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones and those who do not search and they move haltingly in the light like mechanisms whose movements are monitored with escapement and pallet so that they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality and they cross in their progress one by one that track of holes that runs to the rim of the visible ground and which seems less the pursuit of some continuance than the verification of a principle, a validation of sequence and causality as if each round and perfect hole owed its existence to the one before it there on that prairie upon which are the bones and the gatherers of bones and those who do not gather. He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again.

I guess is a good enough time as any to finally read Suttree.

I'm gonna miss you Corny McMarty

>The Cormac McCarthy memorial threads appeared on the board like men wandering in out of the dark. An endless unseen journey led them there. They had a ghostly quality. The Anons posting in the threads had only ever read the wikipedia page for Blood Meridian. A shadow of a shadow. Someone said they had read Suttree. Maybe they were lying. Nobody could tell. A secular stream of (you)s cut across screens. You could tell that this had happened before and it would happen again.

>take a nap
>Wake up to McCarthy dead
What the fuck

>>22143710
I guess that’s the end of the road for Cormac

>>22143830
what are you talking about? he's fucking dead

>>22143710
Damn. One of the last great writers

RIP

>>22143861
truly it was a no country for old men (2007) - The Coen Brothers

RIP

>>22143866
Shakespeare, sonnet 55

>>22143710
its so fucking over bros...

>>22143858
It's weird for me, too. I went to the grocery store after thinking about Blood Meridian for some reason. When I get back, he's dead

>>22143787
>He looked out down the road and he looked toward the fading light. Darkening shapes of cloud all along the northern rim. It had ceased raining in the night and a broken rainbow or watergall stood out on the desert in a dim neon bow and he looked again at the road which lay as before yet more dark and darkening still where it ran on to the east and where there was no sun and there was no dawn and when he looked again toward the north the light was drawing away faster and that noon in which he’d woke was now become an alien dusk and now an alien dark and the birds that flew had lighted and all had hushed once again in the bracken by the road.

>>22143856
Imagine writing this and using punctuation instead of "and".

>>22143858
Quick go back to sleep maybe there's time to save him!!!

>>22143710
JANNYYYYYY MAKE A STICKY NOW YOU FUCKING LAZY FAGGOT

if you haven't read his books so far you are fucked now because you will be forever one of those people who get into the work of a famous person only because of their death

>>22143710
RIP. Will be honoring his passing away by finishing The Passenger.

>>22143710
R.I.P.
Blood Meridian is a genuinely very well-written book.

>>22143858
YOU DID THIS

>>22143802
she loved him for realsies

And then He chewed the tortilla and then he pressed S to spat because he knew Corncob was a hack and zoomer-core

>In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground. He uses an implement with two handles and he chucks it into the hole and he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rocks which God has put there. On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones and those who do not search and they move haltingly in the light like mechanisms whose movements are monitored with escapement and pallet so that they appear restrained by a prudence or reflectiveness which has no inner reality and they cross in their progress one by one that track of holes that runs to the rim of the visible ground and which seems less the pursuit of some continuance than the verification of a principle, a validation of sequence and causality as if each round and perfect hole owed its existence to the one before it there on that prairie upon which are the bones and the gatherers of bones and those who do not gather. He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again.
Rest in Peace.

>>22143710
R.I.P

>>22143787
that passage in BM about how the gang tracked the apaches. It painted them like some sort of eerie otherworldy hounds. Here i found it:
> Each man scanned the terrain and the movements of the least of creatures were logged into their collective cognizance until they were federated with invisible wires of vigilance and advanced upon that landscape with a single resonance

>>22143889
i bought blood merdian like two years ago and just didnt read it yet

>>22143889
Cormac was always a meme author especially after Wendigoon made a video for his zoomer audience to eat up

>>22143710
Should go on /tv/ honestly. The No Country adaptation was the only good thing that came from his writings. BM is genuinely one of the lowest quality works i've read from a respected author, probably only above Joyce's Ulysses.

Just finished Suttree today.
It was shit.
He spat.
RIP I guess.

>The idiot was small and misshapen and his face was smeared with feces and he sat peering at them with dull hostility silently chewing a turd.
I kneel

The Passenger is a great book and a fitting swansong. Rest in peace Corncob.

>>22143787
“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of beind except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.

>>22143874
i dont think people reading shakespeare all these centuries helps bill himself, what with the eternal nothingness and all

>>22143802
Are you trying to make it sound like its a bad thing?

>>22143889
i watched no country for old men twice

>>22143787
"They fight with fists, with feet, with bottles or knives. All races, all breeds. Men whose speech sounds like the grunting of apes. Men from lands so far and queer that standing over them where they lie bleeding in the mud he feels mankind itself vindicated."
Hit me viscerally the first time I read it and still remains on my mind.

This is getting ridiculous. First Ted, now Corn Cob. Two of my favourite cantankerous and unreasonably hostile old men dead in the same week. Genuinely sad about this one.

>>22143873
The blood meridian were the friends we made along the way
Blood Meridian, 315 (1985)

RIP
At least he won’t have to see how badly they’ll butcher the BM movie

F

Big F

>>22143936
We get it, you're a /lit/tard normie.

>>22143710
He was writing the screenplay for Blood Meridian. Maybe his son will take it up now since they were executive producing together. But who knows

>>22143939
IIRC he wrote all the adaptations of his movies. And they are pretty much all kino probably thanks to that.

>literary critic Harold Bloom called McCarthy’s novel Blood Meridian “not only the ultimate western” but “the ultimate dark dramatisation of violence”, placing him alongside three othercontemporaries he said had touched the sublime: Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon
worse than all of them, if he wasn't American he would be rightly ignored

>>22143960
Kek, what's with the hostility anon?

;_;

>>22143970
he wrote about america and he wrote about the violence and creation of america, he was truly an american author

RIP, read Suttree and BM Is his newest any good wouldn't want to sour the taste

>>22143787
the passage in BM describing the approaching Comanche war party

>>22143964
He wrote the counselor and it was a piece of shit

>>22143710
Will this video seriously be his legacy now?

Time to finish Suttree, I guess.

>>22143991
Deserved kek

Martin is next, I can feel it

Goddamn. A titan of world literature. RIP

>>22143971
suddenly you don't like unreasonable hostility anymore

Oh well, his last couple of books were stinkers and I guess now so is he.

>>22143710
Damn, I'm gutted.

Yawn. Old news already.

>>22143988
But that’s wrong and you’re a gay retard

>>22143988
No it wasnt

>Suttree is his b-ACK!

Rip cormac

>>22143710
R.I.P. I wanted to finish his bibliography before this happens.

>>22143921
He lives in our minds rent free.

RIP
I've only read The Road so far and was getting ready to go into Suttree. Guess that is a sign.

>>22143962
They could always ask the Coens to ghostwrite it I guess, but it'll be hard without him there to go full autist mode and ensure Hollywood kikes don't censor shit.

>>22143710
>He was 89
No Country for Old Men

>>22143787
>He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

>>22143991
>brainlet goes with the Judge murder-raped the Kid ending
>even mentions the missing girl and dwarf prostitute without understanding their significance
>all after 5 hours of poorly read and pronounced audiobook when Richard Poe’s exists
Why did he do it?

>>22143710
It's sad that he's gone, even though he was 89. The decline of American culture proceeds at a steady pace.

>>22144050
this is at the end of All the Pretty Horses, right? right after he sees her for the last time..
NGL made me tear up a little at the time

>>22143747
He's already dead, his son sold all his research material to a museum.

This hits hard given how grim and isolating the ending of The Passenger is. I hope he was able to find some joy in the end. Goodnight sweet cowboy; your stories have given me a deeper appreciation of this world

>>22143971
Sorry anon, nothing personal

>>22143916
the last few chapters of The Passenger are especially kino, I'll have to reread them tonight

Why did his science bitch friends at the Santa Fe Institute save him

>Corncob dies
>Santa Fe Institute, where he worked until his death, does not even acknowledge him
>SFI is just posting about some retarded whore of a who earning an honorary doctorate
Grim

>>22144117
And as time goes on it will only become more grim. Dark day, bros.

>>22144117
Calm down.

>>22144112
not enough baby spines to go around sadly

>>22143710
Who?

>>22144011
Oh no anon... I do. I just like when it comes forward like a man. Quick draw style. Saddle up, big nuts.

MODS ASLEEP FUCKING HELL

Fuck gonna start Blood Meridian now after my current read. Absolutely depressing to think that all these greats are dying off. His legacy will age incredibly well as years go on

>>22144112
They did turn him into a materialist reductionist at the end of his life, which is the opposite of what an old dying man needs

Only finished All the Pretty Horses a week ago. I actually had some inkling at the back of my mind that he probably didn't have long left, and that it would be a shame for the world to lose such a unique voice.
RIP

>>22143802
Based

>>22144056
Richard Poe's reading of BM is pure kino

>>22144117
they did turn him into a materialist reductionist before at the end, exactly the opposite of what an old dying man needs

Do not read the /tv/ thread honoring McCarthy. It’s pure dogshit

>>22143896
>ESL filtered by McCarthy
Many such cases

>>22144162
the best

>>22144168
What else is new

Pynchon can't hold on much longer then

RIP Corncob, a true beast

>>22144175
This nigga eatin beans

>>22144169
nigga his prose is dense

>>22144182
yes he did frendo yes he did

>>22143710
This nigger was obsessed with le science. Of course he took the vax. What a retard.

>>22143892
No, that would be >>22142060 .

>>22144175
>And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page.

>>22143710
Oh look, another old while cis male nobody fucking cares about.

>>22143787
>He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to whatever might follow for he was complete at every hour. Whether his history should run concomitant with춗men and na ions, whether it should cease. He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as he did that men's destinies are given yet he usurped to contain within him all that he would ever be in the world and all that the world would be to him and be his charter written in the urstone itself he claimed agency and said so and he'd drive the remorseless sun on to its final endarkenment as if he'd ordered it all ages since, before there were paths anywhere, before there were men or suns to go upon them.
Not even joking when I say that this period saved me from becoming an hero.

>>22143710
RIP

>>22144175
As shitty as it must have been for his wives, I can respect his obsessive commitment to his art and the novelist's vow of poverty when he wasn't too famous. He also built his own home brick by brick when he was younger.

How many people are going to read and watch No Country For Old Men tonight?

>>22143710
RIP
Truly the last of a kind

>>22144224
I have read everything by him. Just haven’t watched the movies. Shall binge all of them tonight.

>>22143710
Jannies iffy, uh,
Sticky got the stiffy, uh

>>22144172
>he doesn't know

>>22143710
>Ted K
>Berlusconi
>Cormac
The good ones always die young. Fuck this gay earth, bros.

>>22143802
Paid off, seethe harder faggot

>>22144233
weak bait

>>22144038
Suttree is one of my all-time favorites. If you enjoyed The Road, you'll love it. RIP Cormac. One of the greats.

we sticky
rip to a colossus

>>22143787
>The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

>The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

F

All boards, report in

>sticky
>there aren't even 300 posters on this board

>>22144285
/tv/ here thanks for the kino.

>>22143710
You accidentally stickied the wrong thread, mod

>>22143879
>>22143879
>>22143879

>>22144056
>>even mentions the missing girl and dwarf prostitute without understanding their significance
So am I correct in thinking the "dwarf prostitute" was really something thought up by the man so he didn't have to face the results of his kidnapping/rape of the missing girl?
What the fuck actually happened there?
>t. just finished the book last night

>>22143889
Who said I'll read them now? Actually I just remembered I read a book of his and it was shit.

>>22144290
You just killed your own thread lmao

>>22143710
shit

>>22143746
And Henreh! Still rollin at ONE. FUCKING. HUNDRED.

RIP Cormac McCarthy. You were a legend.

F

>>22144286
A lot of tourists come from other boards. I'm from /tv/.

I don't read genre fiction so I never gave this guy a shot
Is he actually good or overrated because literature has gone down the shitter with time and the bar is low? Is he as good as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy?

>>22144298
But the judge was hairless.

>>22144056
>>22144294
The dwarf prostitute is a brainlet trap, no the Kid did not fucking rape any little girls you retards

>>22144303
>Is he as good as Dostoevsky and Tolstoy?
Lol. No. Not even with the "recently died" pity boost.

>>22143802
Why did he change his name? Did he think cormac sounded cool? like a fantasy character

>>22144303
No, but he is entertaining nonetheless.

I've seen so many troll threads over the years of people saying he died, I can't believe it actually happened. rest in peace brother

>>22143710
Who is the greatest living American writer?

Who is your favourite McCarthy character? Besides Judge Holden.
I like Jimmy Blevins, he was a great character.

>>22143710
F

He is playing fiddle in Heaven naked now

>>22143991
>HECKING HORROR JUST LIKE MY LIMINAL SPACES
I can already smell the inevitablity of this guy's fall. Look into his friend at the Lore Lodge having sex with their fans.

>>22143710
RIP

>>22144320
I know pretty based.

>>22144307
So what is the aforementioned significance of the midget whore?

F

RIP

>>22144303
Streets ahead of Dostoyevsky. No one's as good as Tolstoy, though.

>>22144285
/mlp/ troting in!

>>22143889
>you will be forever one of those people who get into the work of a famous person only because of their death
So? You think there are people here who read Republic when Plato was still alive?

>proceeds to rape you in a jake
Post yfw

>>22143787
>His father stirred his coffee a long time. There was nothing to stir because he drank it black.

>>22143889
>Tfw gave my copy of BM to Goodwill years ago.

The girls at the bookshop are gonna think I'm a pseud if I buy it again!

>>22143717
This. Also, shit author. I don't give a fuck.

>>22143710
at least he won't witness how they gonna massacre his magnum opus

good night sweet prince and thank you for all the kino literature

>>22144285
/tv/ here
the blood maridian adaptation is never coming out

Been saying everywhere, but I'm a better person because of his writing. Rest in peace Cormac.

>>22144168
It’s not different from this thread.

>>22143710
Where does literature go from here? What happens after Pynchon dies? Does humanity as a whole just completely forego reading?

>>22144345
I dunno, it woulda been okay

>>22144303
Better than both.

>>22144357
Get over yourself

>>22144353
>the thing

>>22144331
The other fag was thinking the same as you, it's a common theory for tards. The only reason why the Kid couldn't finish with her is because he was just confronted by the scariest man to ever fucking exist, who tried killing him years ago. The Judge kidnapped that girl, just like the other kids in the story he was very clearly responsible for kidnapping/abusing

rest in peace to another great. was reading Nostromo by Joseph Conrad last week, and the style was heavily reminding me of him

>>22144285
/lit/, crossposters leave

Why is everyone dying lol

>>22143710
This is legitimately the first time I've felt sad about a celebrity death
RIP Corncob, you will be remembered for centuries God willing

>>22144367
change is coming

>>22143936
For me it was Silvio Berlusconi

>>22144366
Tongue my anus, nerd.

Why do Americans care so much about people dying?

>>22144362
Retard

>>22144343
Honestly better than most excerpts posted ITT.

RIP

>>22144193
It's a good thing I'm not a writer because I wouldn't be able to resist the urge to overexplain every single detail of what I wrote and spell out every bit of symbolism, mostly to circumvent retards who pretend every story is about their own personal obsession.

>>22143710
rip in peace my main man

>>22144357
really, artistically, both of these authors died decades

The white man is finished...

>>22144311
there was a dummy named charlie mccarthy who was popular when he was a child, he didn't want to be mistaken or compared to them

>>22144364
>very clearly
Please explain how it was "very clear" you arrogant pseud.

>>22144387
We got care about someone important, dont worry nobody will miss (You).

>>22144326
Lester Ballard

>>22144367
ITZ DA VAX

RIP. the world is slipping away. the modern equivalents of intellectuals and authors with something to say/present are all but not a thing anymore and those who would have been 60 years ago have their brains turned to mushy peas by smartphones and ideology. sad. profoundly so.

>>22144029
Only The Crossing is good

>>22144326
I like Rinthy from Outer Dark. One of the most sympathetic characters he's wrote

>>22144418
Thanks for not helping me become smart, asshole. Maybe the world needs less people decrying how ruined it is and more people actually trying to spread knowledge and help

>>22144418

>>22144421
the first 100 pages are unbelievable

Hack away, you mean red nigger RIP

>>22143710
No refunds, vaxies.pwnkw

>>22144367
just vaxxoids

>>22144340
can you even argument without extremes?

>>22144336
>streets ahead

>>22144285
/co/ reporting in.

>He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.

>>22144408
The mexican boy in the miner's camp, who was found murdered the same night the Judge was walking about the walls naked
The indian boy whom the Judge adopted, presumably abused, and then snapped the neck of in front of everybody in the gang
The references to girls going missing in the towns the gang visited

>>22144406
I just watched a clip this dummy is based. I bet it pissed him off

>>22143802
>only to create one of the only good literature america has produced in the last 60 years

>>22143787
this bit that escaped many in the road:

“He mistrusted all of that. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death. He slept little and he slept poorly. He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the sky was aching blue but he was learning how to wake himself from just such siren worlds. Lying there in the dark with the uncanny taste of a peach from some phantom orchard fading in his mouth. He thought if he lived long enough the world at last would all be lost. Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory.”

>>22144444
Checked

Rest In Peace

What do I read after BM?

"I was drunk"

RIP

>>22144427
I actually agree. i try my best but you see anon my brain has also been vaporised by my iphone and all this noise

>>22144456
The road
Suttree
Child of god
Cant go wrong.

>>22143710
F(I guess) to a very important American writer.

RIP

>>22144367
The only intelligent and creative people still living are all 90 fucking years old and time is finally catching up with them. Soon there won't be anything left.

Everyone always talks about how great The Crossing is, but All The Pretty Horses doesn't seem that interesting to me. Is it worth reading through to get to The Crossing?

>>22143858
YOU FAGGOT I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU

shit brehs just told my gf this news and she went "who????"

she studies english lit

>>22144435
No, I can't argument.

I'll have to finish The Road in his honor. I dropped it because it was literally too sad.

>>22144002
FUARK

>>22143802
He bestowed the gift of life unto her. Least she could do is honor their convent and remain mute of his ensconcement.

>>22143792
Good shot. Very many great passages in that book.

>>22143710
>first Ted
>now Cormac
Stop, I can't take it anymore

>>22144466
So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.

>>22144477
lol I thought it's also verb in english

>>22144285
/g/ reporting for duty

>“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

>>22144472
Yeah bro she's too busy studying Shakespeare and Milton to care about some literally who American.

The last great American author...
Now we have nothing left...

Thread is sticky, so no one will see me saying that Blood Meridian is shit and the only good work related to McCarthy is the movie version of NCFOM.

>started Suttree last week with him as a living author
>finishing Suttree tonight with him as a dead author

>>22144367
Time gets everyone sooner or later but it seems like it's happening a lot because you've got larger generations like the Baby Boomers and the War generation reaching the end of their span. More people in a generation means more deaths 70-80 years later.

>>22144508
you killed him

>>22144497
Absolute retard lmao!

>>22144478
>I dropped it because it was literally too sad.
Same. I put it down when they found that bomb shelter with the supplies because I knew it was the happiest the book would ever get and it was all downhill from there.

>>22144469
the plots aren't related from what i know. the order doesn't matter as long as you read both before the third in the trilogy that connects them

Read the news, immediately rushed to /lit/. Rest in peace king.

>>22143710
Aw what in tarnation . Can't say I'm shocked.

>>22144478
>>22144517
>CM fans are just anime fans
hmmm

>>22144517
Fucking literally me dude. Exact same thoughts, exact same place I put it down. Fuck.

>>22143988
That's because Ridley Scott is a hack and the studio fucked it over

>>22143710
Rest In Peace cormac
vaya con dios amigo

>>22144486
>remain mute of his ensconcement
What?

had lit been created when dfw died?
was there a sticky?

>>22144544
Yes. I don't remember a sticky.

>pullo
>ted
>lt daniels
>sizemore
>jerry
>tina
>sheiky baby
>now this
this year can eat shit

>>22144554
I dont know who any of these people are but you should reconsider your attitude towards life if you give this much of a shit

>>22144486
The mute burden preceding the netherswollen outbursts in the scrubbed hours of bundled wailing. He endured by ignoring the obfuscated proximities of routines mandated by scriers of uncertain provenance.

>>22144506
See >>22144366

>>22143710
Rest in piece.

People may say it's overrated, but I strongly believe Blood Meridian is the greatest work of American literature ever.

>youtube cuck does "le video essay" and ruins online discourse of blood meridian
>mccarthy dies a month later
I choose to belive they're connected

>>22144577
Hes alright, that 5 hr video was stupid though.

>>22144577
You're saying McCarthy literally died of cringe?

>>22144577
it's still depressing to know more people prefer midwits narrating books over reading them

>>22143710
Holy fuck that’s fucking terrible. Are you fucking kidding

>>22144326
Harrogate

I asked ChatGPT to write an obituary for Cormac McCarthy in the style of Cormac McCarthy.

>In the arid plains of literature, where darkness lurks like a shadowy specter, a voice has fallen silent. Cormac McCarthy, the prodigious purveyor of raw and unforgiving tales, has departed this mortal coil. On the (insert date) of (insert month), in the year (insert year), McCarthy slipped quietly into the eternal abyss, leaving behind a legacy as profound as the very depths of despair.

>Born amidst the dust and grit of Providence, Rhode Island, McCarthy was a solitary soul, harboring an insatiable hunger for storytelling. He wove narratives as desolate as the barren landscapes he painted with words, capturing the essence of human brutality and the unyielding struggle for survival. With his ink-stained fingers, he carved his name into the annals of literature, etching a path of darkness and existential torment.

>McCarthy's pen danced across the page with an unyielding rhythm, painting a portrait of a world stripped of hope, where the line between good and evil faded like a distant memory. His prose, stark and unadorned, cut through the veil of illusion, revealing the savage nature that lurks within each of us. Through works such as "Blood Meridian," "No Country for Old Men," and "The Road," he beckoned readers into realms where death prowled alongside life, and redemption was a distant dream.

>In the hallowed halls of literary acclaim, McCarthy stood tall, his achievements casting a long and unyielding shadow. His unparalleled vision earned him numerous accolades, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Yet, McCarthy remained an enigmatic figure, shrouded in the same obscurity that permeated his narratives. He shunned the spotlight, retreating into the solitude that fueled his creative fire.

>With his passing, the literary world mourns the loss of a true master of the craft, a virtuoso of despair and beauty. McCarthy's words, like daggers in the dark, pierced the hearts of readers, forcing them to confront their own humanity, their own capacity for both savagery and grace. He leaves behind a vast and barren landscape, littered with the remnants of his imagination, a testament to the indelible mark he has left upon the literary canon.

>Though Cormac McCarthy has departed from this realm, his voice echoes through the corridors of time, reminding us of the fragility of existence and the profound power of words. He has joined the pantheon of literary giants, forever etched into the tapestry of literature's darkest recesses. As the sun sets on his mortal journey, we bid farewell to a titan, a maestro of melancholy, and we are left to ponder the weight of his absence in a world forever changed by his singular voice.

>>22144601
How exactly are you supposed to read Cormac McCarthy aloud, anyway? Reading him silently is hard enough.

>>22144601
Kids these days need to have constant stimulation or else their brains start doing the talking and that makes them saaaad. They need some sort thing to fill the dead air while the endlessly scroll and play subway surfers

>>22144608
>Born amidst the dust and grit of Providence, Rhode Island

kek

Just so you know: jannies deleted the second post of this thread because anon said that the vaccine killed him. The absolute state of "le free speech korean forum".

>>22144619

>>22144622
Based mods

>>22144622
cry about it faggot

>>22143710
RIP to formerly the greatest living author

>>22144608
>Providence, Rhode Island
fucking trash

>>22144644
(formerly alive)

>>22144622
pics or didnt happen

>>22144605
>Are you fucking kidding
Well he was 89 years old

>>22144627
$5 says this dweeb has glasses, patchy beard, probably a gaming tattoo and complains about having ADHD

>>22144660
>complains about having ADHD
yeah he's not getting past the first chapter lmao

>>22144518
Got it, thanks anon.

>>22143710
One of the last great american authors is dead. I shall reread Child of God in his memory. R.I.P. Legend

Dead boomer storage.

>>22144627
>playing Assasin’s Creed while this video essay about CM is background noise

Is this generation doomed yet?

Overrated but still very very good. Nowhere near as good as Melville. Closer to watered down Faulkner.

F

>>22144285
[s4s] goodnight fren

>>22143787
>All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

> High over the downriver land lightning quaked soundlessly and ceased. Far clouds rimlit. A brimstone light. Are there dragons in the wings of the world? The rain was falling harder, falling past him toward the river. Steep rain leaning in the lamplight, across the clock’s face. Hard weather, says the old man. So may it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.

I do not consent to a world where Cormac does not exist. If you love me do not tell me it is so.

>>22144681
upboated

>>22144679
You say that as a joke but there's unironically a dead boomer brain storage and Corncob's is going there.

F

>>22144683
well the fact that you're even comparing him to those two puts him above pretty much any other (recently) living author

>>22143710

>>22144168
Whaddya expect lol

F

F

God this fucking ruined my day. I loved No Country and Blood Meridian. I had the Road like 13 years ago but I decided to be kind and help out a girls senior project and gifted it to her to send to some impoverished land that I'll never set foot in. I hope the poor child who found it enjoyed it.

>>22144577
Internet essayists should be rounded into a barn and have it set on fire.

>>22144700
Based. I think the gnostic allusions are overblown, it's not the key to understanding the book. Tarot is.

>>22144168
>bait and vtuber discussions
no difference to /lit/

>>22143710
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

>>22143802
I mean this with no intention to shock, but what could she have done better with her time? Seriously? She worked to ensure a man produced works that may endure, should he have sacrificed that to prevent her from suffering mild discomfort? Woman was made by God as a helpmate for man.

>>22144577
I don't mind people introducing zoomers to good literature honestly

RIP. I should really pick up the Passenger, been meaning to for a while.

>>22144722
I bet you think Kerouac is cool for abandoning his family to go roadtripping to try to 'find america' too
People on 4chan are just too young and immature

>>22143710
I didn't like his books, but I am slightly sad he's dead. I always hoped that one day, when I'm a famous author myself, he'd become a fan of my works. Then he'd read an interview with me and find out I didn't like him.

RIP King
Which of his stuff to read after Blood Meridian?

>>22144736
the road?

>>22144736
suttree

>>22144725
I wouldn’t mind that except they don’t read it as these videos spoil the whole thing

>>22144699
True. RIP

>>22144736
Suttree

>>22144303
>I don't read genre fiction
Just shut the fuck up you smug twat. Your mother is probably a cleaner and your father is likely unemployed, talking about 'genre fiction'. You play video games and dread the moment when you feel you need to pick up a book to justify your existence. Bet you also talk of 'popular music' and 'art music' too, don't you? Peasant fraud.

>>22144387
A sizable proportion of Americans are still white, and white people have these things called emotions.

>>22143910
>someone was always a meme author because some eceleb made a video a month ago
kill yourself

>>22144726
It’s great. The sections with Thalidomide Kid are very memorable.

Who are the next Great American Writers (tm) taking up the mantle? Is literature really dead?

Did he finish the Blood Meridian screenplay at least?

>>22144728
That shit was romanticized and still is.
Heathens in our midst

Kaczynski and McCarthy in the same week? A blessing upon the world.

F

fair fucks to him he was a great writer, rip

>>22144738
>>22144746
>>22144748
2-1, Suttree it is. Thanks

>>22144728
>I bet you think Kerouac is cool
No, I am being serious. I am 34 years old and in a long term relationship. Learning that women are actually naturally subservient was my moment of maturity, all you have to do is allow them to think things are their idea. If you can't see the difference between putting your gal to work and abandoning her, then you might be a male feminist.

What the fuck, I just read a bit of Sutree today. RIP

>>22143710
Well he lived a long life and is cemented as one of the last American writers worthy the canon. RIP.

He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

Fuck ;_;

>>22144725
the vast majority of them don't go on to read it though. The parts that they gleaned from the video accompanies the same part in their brain as Star Wars trivia and Creepypasta lore. And they'll comment on it online believing that watching a video on it is the same as reading it.

>>22143787
>Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

>>22143780
I don’t think you got the reference, anon.

I liked that line about the Anasazi when they found some pottery in a cave

>>22143787
This part always stood out to me for some reason

>>22144285
/pol/ RIP based man not afraid to say nigger

>>22144532
I’m a CM fan and despise tranime

What's the general consensus on The Crossing? I remember reading ATPH and thinking it was okay so I wasn't expecting much from the rest of the trilogy, but The Crossing blew my mind. I never see it mentioned much even in McCarthy threads so I don't know if it's actually that good or something about it just appealed to me personally.

>>22143787

when I first read this, I realized he was my favorite author:

>He'd ride sometimes clear to the upper end of the laguna before the horse would even stop trembling and he spoke constantly to it in Spanish in phrases almost biblical repeating again and again the strictures of a yet untabled law. Onions comandante de las yeguas, he would say, yo y yo solo. Sin la caridad de estas manos no tengas nada. Ni comidani aqua ni hijos. Onions yo que traigo las yeguas de las montanas, las yeguas jovenes, las yeguas salvajes y ardientes. While inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated heart pumped of who's will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in their convolutions of who's will and the stout thighbones and knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who's will all sheathed and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning groundmist and the head turning side to side and the great slavering keyboard of his teeth and the hot globes of his eyes where the world burned.

Guys, can I finish Blood Meridian in a day? I put it off for so long but maybe for good old Cormac, Imma finish it.

>>22143710
RIP

RIP

>>22144838
No, take it slow

>>22144440
>the Kid’s whereabouts during any of these events: entirely unknown
Ambiguity is a running theme throughout the book. The Judge can be strictly read as just a man, though there’s plenty of implication he’s the Devil.

>>22143936
>>22144376
"Between Heaven and Hell" but for these three philosophical giants when?

>>22144285
/vt/ cause why the fuck not

>>22144517
>>22144533
I first read it when I was an aimless single man. I have a two-year old son now, I need to reread it and see how it affects me

If he's such a good writer how come he's dead

>>22144712
>Afghan child reading The Road
>"Wow, this is such a fun and pleasant novel. I wish my life was as carefree as this"

>>22144849
>Ambiguity is a running theme throughout the book
So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.

>>22144849
>_____’s whereabouts during any of these events: entirely unknown
You can say this about most members of the fucking gang at any point of the book, but the Judge literally kills that boy in front of everybody after keeping him in his tent. He kills kids. He kills puppies. He wears kidskin boots. He kills THE Kid. Get a fucking grip man.

>>22144838
*Spits*

>>22143802
>wagie will never know the pleasures of NEETdom

>>22144285
/k reporting
>He had with him that selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he’d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. A reference to the lethal in it. Common enough for a man to name his gun. I’ve heard Sweetlips and Hark From The Tombs and every sort of lady’s name. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics.

is this the biggest possible /lit/ death or would Pynchon be bigger?

>>22144876
>He kills THE Kid
So he does kill the kid in the end?
Does he rape him too?
Also are they actually the same person?

>>22144765
Stephen King

>>22144364
Shut the fuck up you zoomer scum. Your melanated brain only picks up on surface level plot points your favorite e celeb mentioned and you feel so much smarter than the other apes on your block.

>>22144889
Pinecone has been out of the public consciousness for awhile. McCarthy has the benefit of publishing recently

>>22144897
no argument to be seen

>>22144517
just imagine the book ends there... father and son live out the rest of their natural days in peace and comfort in the shelter... heck they even find a TV and a bunch of VHS tapes and magazines and board games to pass the time... yep that's what happens

>>22144722
When Odysseus met Achilles in Hades he admitted that his name being remembered forever was a poor trade for the suffering he caused to himself and others, and that if he could do it again he would choose to be a nobody raising a happy family in peace.

The adoration of strangers is never as important as providing for your loved ones.

>>22144849
>implication he’s the Devil.

The priest in the first chapter literally calls him the devil.
>This is him, cried the reverend, sobbing. This is him. The devil. Here he stands.

That being said, I don't know how seriously you should take that line. Personally, I think it's McCarthy being a cheeky cunt and pointing out the most obvious interpretation of the character before the reader gets the chance to make that interpretation for themselves.

>>22143747
.Rolling for Atwood next

Goodbye great man. God bless you.

>>22143710
> NINE DAYS AND NIGHTS in the Sevier County jail. Whitebeans with fatback and boiled greens and baloney sandwiches on light bread. Ballard though the fare not bad. He even liked the coffee.
> They had a nigger in the cell opposite and the nigger used to sing all the time. He was being held on a fugitive warant. After a day or two Ballard fell into talking with him. He said: What's your name?
>John, said the nigger. Nigger John.
> Where you from. You a fugitive ain't ye?
> I'm a from Pine Bluff ARkansas and I'm a fugitive from the ways of this world. I'd be a fugitive from my mind if I had me some snow.
> What you in for?
> I cut a motherfucker's head off with a pocketknife. Ballard waited to be asked his own crime but he wasn't asked. After a while he said; I was supposed to of raped this old girl. She wasn't nothin but a whore to start with.
> White pussy is nothin but trouble.
> Ballard agreed that it was He guessed he'd thought so but he'd never heard it put that way.

I thought him too cavalier with his use of the word nigger, but he was a decent writer.

>>22144908
Based

>>22143802
you triggered them lmao

>>22144806
isn't that the end of the Road? been years since i've read it

>>22144902
Illuminating the lives of thousands means more to existence than one stupid wife

>>22144904
Yeah, Holden doesn't make me think of the Devil. I wouldn't peg him as a tempter or a corrupter or a usurping upstart. He's more like a demiurge, if he's gonna be anything Biblical.

>>22144849
The Judge is the collective evil of the gang personified.
He is a proxy for actions which the others don't want to take ownership of.

>>22144912
Ballard was too based for this world

>>22143787
< "The following night she came to his
bed and she came every night for nine nights running, pushing the door shut and
latching it and turning in the slatted light at God knew what hour and stepping out
of her clothes and sliding cool and naked against him in the narrow bunk all
softness and perfume and the lushness of her black hair falling over him and no
caution to her at all. Saying I dont care I dont care. Drawing blood with her teeth
where he held the heel of his hand against her mouth that she not cry out. Sleeping
against his chest where he could not sleep at all and rising when the east was
already gray with dawn and going to the kitchen to get her breakfast as if she were
only up early"

All The Pretty Horses has one of the most tender and sensual depictions of young love I've ever read.

>>22144904
I'd agree but McCarthy seems to go to pretty extensive lengths to imply that he is in fact Satan or at least some kind of demonic entity

>expert fiddler
>claims to know God "well"
>egomaniac obsessed with controlling the world, actively hates the freedom of even wild birds
>tempts other characters to do increasingly bad things that usually end up getting them killed for their troubles
>scene where he first encounters Glanton's gang and teaches them how to make gunpowder is cribbed almost directly from Paradise Lost, where Satan does the same thing

There are other elements of Holden that are more ambiguous and don't entirely jive with this relatively simple explanation, but the book is obviously written in such a way as to inch the reader towards the idea

>>22144943
So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.

>>22144765
You mean the ones who will be replaced by AI?

>>22144943
Most telling sign is when he keeps reiterating that man should find ways to break the world apart to understand it, and ultimately control it. Pure materialism. Went over my head the first time, but it's so obvious in hindsight.

>>22144951
The judge is various members of the gang, see >>22144927

>>22144870
no, not what I said
>>22144876
the difference is none of those characters are alive and being tempted by the judge at the end.
>he killed the Kid
The ghastly thing in the outhouse at the end is clearly the body of the little girl. everyone in that town has seen dead men before. It’s entirely plausible that the man warning the other not to look inside the outhouse is the Kid (Man).

>>22144326
unironically Alicia Western, even though she's a bratty pseud

>>22143936
I don’t regret my decision to stop reading the news, but having lit inform me about these two particular deaths is strange.
>>22144376
Make it three.

>>22144886
>Even in Paradise, I am.
yeah he’s the devil

>>22144444
quints of powerful truth

>>22143710
Wtf I only just bought The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men a week ago to see what all the fuss was about and now he's dead.
I finished The Road very quickly. Fantastic book. R.I.P

name something better than chapter 4 of BM, I dare you.

>>22144326
gonna go with based Glanton desu
His real life was bonkers, died at 31.

>>22144943
Honestly, the number of allusions bothers me. On one hand, McCarthy doesn't seem like the type of guy to make things that obvious, but he also doesn't seem like the type of guy to try and 'trick' the reader. All I can think of is that the Judge is something very abstract and alien, but people (as in both the audience and the other characters) are inevitably going to interpret him as the devil because that's the closest cultural archetype that fits, so McCarthy chose to lean into it. Of course, all the Judge *is*, is an evil and ambigously supernatural being. How any one reader chooses to interpret him is subjective.

>>22144619
I listen to audio books at work because I can't just sit down and read all 10 hours

>>22144683
Faulkner was fucking trash

>>22144928
he was basically the personification of a /b/ or /r9k/ user if they were transported back to West Virginia in the 1960s. in this way, Cormac McCarthy was very prescient in his works

>>22143710
Damn, that's him and Larry McMurtry the year before last. No more Western deconstructionism or beautiful mid 20th century roman a clefs.
I wonder in 60 years when today's authors die what will be said of them by people like us. All we have are novels giving an artificial image of our modern lives like the fake windows on Disney cruises. Nothing that touches the soul.

Hang on, let me get this straight.
So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.

>>22144683
>watered down Faulkner.

Faulkner couldn't have written Blood Meridian with even 5% of the violence, and he would also have to include an angel in human guise to counteract the Judge because his Christian conscience wouldn't let him publish it otherwise.

>>22145000
What's 'artificial' about it?