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>>22143710no sticky? Lit is fucking dead
>>22143710It was the vax
>>22143710>It's actually realWTF
>>22143710Not Corncob Yecarthy!
very sad but i'm sure he went peacefully, fucker lived an incredible life
This fucking sucks
>>22143710Did he manage to finish "The Passenger"?
>>22143710holy shit it's real fuck
sticky immediatelyjesus RIP
>>22143710It'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
>>22143710NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>22143723He’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>CorncobHe's next, if he's not already gone.
>>22143747Don 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
>>22143754I expect the Chicano community to prepare a statement.
He said that he would never die.
F
>>22143772now 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?
>>22143710AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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.
>>22143787The dialogue about God and death with the Ragpicker in Suttree
>>22143710FUCK YOU NOBEL PRIZE KEKS> ITS TOO LATE NOWYOU FUCKING GLOBHOMO FREAKSRIP '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.
falso 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
>>22143787They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.
Sticky!!
>>22143810kek
>>22143710Another 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
>>22143798His literary glory will make him live on for at least a couple of hundred years though, unlike normies.
>>22143710well at least he got to see his books become mainstream.>>22143754i 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.
>>22143824John Green tier.
>>22143710RIP. Both Blood Meridian and Suttree are my personal favorite of his novels
>>22143802Following 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
>>22143710vaxxed people die.
>>22143787Not 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.
>89He was a fucking kid
Shit, man. Everybody's fucking dying.
>>22143715>>22143727>>22143764>>22143784>>22143807>>22143819Anyone else remember the Eric Carle sticky?
>>22143787In 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 deadWhat the fuck
>>22143710I guess that’s the end of the road for Cormac
>>22143830what are you talking about? he's fucking dead
>>22143710Damn. One of the last great writers
RIP
>>22143861truly it was a no country for old men (2007) - The Coen BrothersRIP
>>22143866Shakespeare, sonnet 55
>>22143710its so fucking over bros...
>>22143858It'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.
>>22143856Imagine writing this and using punctuation instead of "and".
>>22143858Quick go back to sleep maybe there's time to save him!!!
>>22143710JANNYYYYYY 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
>>22143710RIP. Will be honoring his passing away by finishing The Passenger.
>>22143710R.I.P.Blood Meridian is a genuinely very well-written book.
>>22143858YOU DID THIS
>>22143802she 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.
>>22143710R.I.P
>>22143787that 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
>>22143889i bought blood merdian like two years ago and just didnt read it yet
>>22143889Cormac was always a meme author especially after Wendigoon made a video for his zoomer audience to eat up
>>22143710Should 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.
>>22143874i dont think people reading shakespeare all these centuries helps bill himself, what with the eternal nothingness and all
>>22143802Are you trying to make it sound like its a bad thing?
>>22143889i 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.
>>22143873The blood meridian were the friends we made along the way Blood Meridian, 315 (1985)
RIPAt least he won’t have to see how badly they’ll butcher the BM movie
Big F
>>22143936We get it, you're a /lit/tard normie.
>>22143710He was writing the screenplay for Blood Meridian. Maybe his son will take it up now since they were executive producing together. But who knows
>>22143939IIRC 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 Pynchonworse than all of them, if he wasn't American he would be rightly ignored
>>22143960Kek, what's with the hostility anon?
;_;
>>22143970he 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
>>22143787the passage in BM describing the approaching Comanche war party
>>22143964He wrote the counselor and it was a piece of shit
>>22143710Will this video seriously be his legacy now?
Time to finish Suttree, I guess.
>>22143991Deserved kek
Martin is next, I can feel it
Goddamn. A titan of world literature. RIP
>>22143971suddenly you don't like unreasonable hostility anymore
Oh well, his last couple of books were stinkers and I guess now so is he.
>>22143710Damn, I'm gutted.
Yawn. Old news already.
>>22143988But that’s wrong and you’re a gay retard
>>22143988No it wasnt
>Suttree is his b-ACK!
Rip cormac
>>22143710R.I.P. I wanted to finish his bibliography before this happens.
>>22143921He lives in our minds rent free.
RIPI've only read The Road so far and was getting ready to go into Suttree. Guess that is a sign.
>>22143962They 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 89No 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?
>>22143710It's sad that he's gone, even though he was 89. The decline of American culture proceeds at a steady pace.
>>22144050this 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
>>22143747He'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
>>22143971Sorry anon, nothing personal
>>22143916the 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
>>22144117And as time goes on it will only become more grim. Dark day, bros.
>>22144117Calm down.
>>22144112not enough baby spines to go around sadly
>>22143710Who?
>>22144011Oh 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
>>22144112They 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
>>22143802Based
>>22144056Richard Poe's reading of BM is pure kino
>>22144117they 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 McCarthyMany such cases
>>22144162the best
>>22144168What else is new
Pynchon can't hold on much longer then
RIP Corncob, a true beast
>>22144175This nigga eatin beans
>>22144169nigga his prose is dense
>>22144182yes he did frendo yes he did
>>22143710This nigger was obsessed with le science. Of course he took the vax. What a retard.
>>22143892No, that would be >>22142060 .
>>22144175>And he would tell them that everything he had to say was there on the page.
>>22143710Oh 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.
>>22143710RIP
>>22144175As 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?
>>22143710RIPTruly the last of a kind
>>22144224I have read everything by him. Just haven’t watched the movies. Shall binge all of them tonight.
>>22143710Jannies iffy, uh, Sticky got the stiffy, uh
>>22144172>he doesn't know
>>22143710>Ted K>Berlusconi>CormacThe good ones always die young. Fuck this gay earth, bros.
>>22143802Paid off, seethe harder faggot
>>22144233weak bait
>>22144038Suttree is one of my all-time favorites. If you enjoyed The Road, you'll love it. RIP Cormac. One of the greats.
we stickyrip 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.
All boards, report in
>sticky>there aren't even 300 posters on this board
>>22144285/tv/ here thanks for the kino.
>>22143710You 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
>>22143889Who said I'll read them now? Actually I just remembered I read a book of his and it was shit.
>>22144290You just killed your own thread lmao
>>22143710shit
>>22143746And Henreh! Still rollin at ONE. FUCKING. HUNDRED. RIP Cormac McCarthy. You were a legend.
F>>22144286A lot of tourists come from other boards. I'm from /tv/.
I don't read genre fiction so I never gave this guy a shotIs 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?
>>22144298But the judge was hairless.
>>22144056>>22144294The 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.
>>22143802Why did he change his name? Did he think cormac sounded cool? like a fantasy character
>>22144303No, 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
>>22143710Who is the greatest living American writer?
Who is your favourite McCarthy character? Besides Judge Holden.I like Jimmy Blevins, he was a great character.
>>22143710FHe is playing fiddle in Heaven naked now
>>22143991>HECKING HORROR JUST LIKE MY LIMINAL SPACESI can already smell the inevitablity of this guy's fall. Look into his friend at the Lore Lodge having sex with their fans.
>>22144320I know pretty based.
>>22144307So what is the aforementioned significance of the midget whore?
>>22144303Streets 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 deathSo? You think there are people here who read Republic when Plato was still alive?
>proceeds to rape you in a jakePost 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!
>>22143717This. Also, shit author. I don't give a fuck.
>>22143710at least he won't witness how they gonna massacre his magnum opusgood night sweet prince and thank you for all the kino literature
>>22144285/tv/ herethe blood maridian adaptation is never coming out
Been saying everywhere, but I'm a better person because of his writing. Rest in peace Cormac.
>>22144168It’s not different from this thread.
>>22143710Where does literature go from here? What happens after Pynchon dies? Does humanity as a whole just completely forego reading?
>>22144345I dunno, it woulda been okay
>>22144303Better than both.
>>22144357Get over yourself
>>22144353>the thing
>>22144331The 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
>>22143710This is legitimately the first time I've felt sad about a celebrity deathRIP Corncob, you will be remembered for centuries God willing
>>22144367change is coming
>>22143936For me it was Silvio Berlusconi
>>22144366Tongue my anus, nerd.
Why do Americans care so much about people dying?
>>22144362Retard
>>22144343Honestly better than most excerpts posted ITT.
>>22144193It'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.
>>22143710rip in peace my main man
>>22144357really, artistically, both of these authors died decades
The white man is finished...
>>22144311there 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 clearlyPlease explain how it was "very clear" you arrogant pseud.
>>22144387We got care about someone important, dont worry nobody will miss (You).
>>22144326Lester Ballard
>>22144367ITZ 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.
>>22144029Only The Crossing is good
>>22144326I like Rinthy from Outer Dark. One of the most sympathetic characters he's wrote
>>22144418Thanks 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
>>22144421the first 100 pages are unbelievable
Hack away, you mean red nigger RIP
>>22143710No refunds, vaxies.pwnkw
>>22144367just vaxxoids
>>22144340can 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.
>>22144408The mexican boy in the miner's camp, who was found murdered the same night the Judge was walking about the walls nakedThe indian boy whom the Judge adopted, presumably abused, and then snapped the neck of in front of everybody in the gangThe references to girls going missing in the towns the gang visited
>>22144406I 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
>>22143787this 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.”
>>22144444Checked
Rest In Peace
What do I read after BM?
"I was drunk"RIP
>>22144427I actually agree. i try my best but you see anon my brain has also been vaporised by my iphone and all this noise
>>22144456The roadSuttree Child of godCant go wrong.
>>22143710F(I guess) to a very important American writer.
>>22144367The 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?
>>22143858YOU FAGGOT I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU
shit brehs just told my gf this news and she went "who????"she studies english lit
>>22144435No, I can't argument.
I'll have to finish The Road in his honor. I dropped it because it was literally too sad.
>>22144002FUARK
>>22143802He bestowed the gift of life unto her. Least she could do is honor their convent and remain mute of his ensconcement.
>>22143792Good shot. Very many great passages in that book.
>>22143710>first Ted>now CormacStop, I can't take it anymore
>>22144466So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.
>>22144477lol 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.”
>>22144472Yeah 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
>>22144367Time 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.
>>22144508you killed him
>>22144497Absolute 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.
>>22144469the 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.
>>22143710Aw what in tarnation . Can't say I'm shocked.
>>22144478>>22144517>CM fans are just anime fanshmmm
>>22144517Fucking literally me dude. Exact same thoughts, exact same place I put it down. Fuck.
>>22143988That's because Ridley Scott is a hack and the studio fucked it over
>>22143710Rest In Peace cormacvaya con dios amigo
>>22144486>remain mute of his ensconcementWhat?
had lit been created when dfw died?was there a sticky?
>>22144544Yes. I don't remember a sticky.
>pullo>ted>lt daniels>sizemore>jerry>tina>sheiky baby>now thisthis year can eat shit
>>22144554I dont know who any of these people are but you should reconsider your attitude towards life if you give this much of a shit
>>22144486The 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.
>>22144506See >>22144366
>>22143710Rest 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 laterI choose to belive they're connected
>>22144577Hes alright, that 5 hr video was stupid though.
>>22144577You're saying McCarthy literally died of cringe?
>>22144577it's still depressing to know more people prefer midwits narrating books over reading them
>>22143710Holy fuck that’s fucking terrible. Are you fucking kidding
>>22144326Harrogate
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.
>>22144601How exactly are you supposed to read Cormac McCarthy aloud, anyway? Reading him silently is hard enough.
>>22144601Kids 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 Islandkek
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
>>22144622Based mods
>>22144622cry about it faggot
>>22143710RIP to formerly the greatest living author
>>22144608>Providence, Rhode Islandfucking trash
>>22144644(formerly alive)
>>22144622pics or didnt happen
>>22144605>Are you fucking kiddingWell 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 ADHDyeah he's not getting past the first chapter lmao
>>22144518Got it, thanks anon.
>>22143710One 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 noiseIs 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.
>>22144681upboated
>>22144679You say that as a joke but there's unironically a dead boomer brain storage and Corncob's is going there.
>>22144683well the fact that you're even comparing him to those two puts him above pretty much any other (recently) living author
>>22143710
>>22144168Whaddya expect lol
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.>>22144577Internet essayists should be rounded into a barn and have it set on fire.
>>22144700Based. I think the gnostic allusions are overblown, it's not the key to understanding the book. Tarot is.
>>22144168>bait and vtuber discussionsno difference to /lit/
>>22143710They 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.
>>22143802I 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.
>>22144577I don't mind people introducing zoomers to good literature honestly
RIP. I should really pick up the Passenger, been meaning to for a while.
>>22144722I bet you think Kerouac is cool for abandoning his family to go roadtripping to try to 'find america' tooPeople on 4chan are just too young and immature
>>22143710I 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 KingWhich of his stuff to read after Blood Meridian?
>>22144736the road?
>>22144736suttree
>>22144725I wouldn’t mind that except they don’t read it as these videos spoil the whole thing
>>22144699True. RIP>>22144736Suttree
>>22144303>I don't read genre fictionJust 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.
>>22144387A 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 agokill yourself
>>22144726It’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?
>>22144728That shit was romanticized and still is.Heathens in our midst
Kaczynski and McCarthy in the same week? A blessing upon the world.
fair fucks to him he was a great writer, rip
>>22144738>>22144746>>221447482-1, Suttree it is. Thanks
>>22144728>I bet you think Kerouac is coolNo, 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
>>22143710Well 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 ;_;
>>22144725the 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.
>>22143780I don’t think you got the reference, anon.
I liked that line about the Anasazi when they found some pottery in a cave
>>22143787This part always stood out to me for some reason
>>22144285/pol/ RIP based man not afraid to say nigger
>>22144532I’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.
>>22143787when 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.
>>22144838No, 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>>22144533I 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 bookSo 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 unknownYou 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 KidSo he does kill the kid in the end?Does he rape him too?Also are they actually the same person?
>>22144765Stephen King
>>22144364Shut 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.
>>22144889Pinecone has been out of the public consciousness for awhile. McCarthy has the benefit of publishing recently
>>22144897no argument to be seen
>>22144517just 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
>>22144722When 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.
>>22144908Based
>>22143802you triggered them lmao
>>22144806isn't that the end of the Road? been years since i've read it
>>22144902Illuminating the lives of thousands means more to existence than one stupid wife
>>22144904Yeah, 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.
>>22144849The 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.
>>22144912Ballard was too based for this world
>>22143787< "The following night she came to hisbed and she came every night for nine nights running, pushing the door shut andlatching it and turning in the slatted light at God knew what hour and stepping outof her clothes and sliding cool and naked against him in the narrow bunk allsoftness and perfume and the lushness of her black hair falling over him and nocaution to her at all. Saying I dont care I dont care. Drawing blood with her teethwhere he held the heel of his hand against her mouth that she not cry out. Sleepingagainst his chest where he could not sleep at all and rising when the east wasalready gray with dawn and going to the kitchen to get her breakfast as if she wereonly up early"All The Pretty Horses has one of the most tender and sensual depictions of young love I've ever read.
>>22144904I'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 thingThere 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
>>22144943So the judge and the kid were one person all along like Tyler durden? What a fucking ripoff.
>>22144765You mean the ones who will be replaced by AI?
>>22144943Most 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.
>>22144951The judge is various members of the gang, see >>22144927
>>22144870no, not what I said >>22144876the difference is none of those characters are alive and being tempted by the judge at the end. >he killed the KidThe 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).
>>22144326unironically Alicia Western, even though she's a bratty pseud
>>22143936I don’t regret my decision to stop reading the news, but having lit inform me about these two particular deaths is strange.>>22144376Make it three.
>>22144886>Even in Paradise, I am.yeah he’s the devil
>>22144444quints of powerful truth
>>22143710Wtf 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.
>>22144326gonna go with based Glanton desu His real life was bonkers, died at 31.
>>22144943Honestly, 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.
>>22144619I listen to audio books at work because I can't just sit down and read all 10 hours
>>22144683Faulkner was fucking trash
>>22144928he 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
>>22143710Damn, 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.
>>22145000What's 'artificial' about it?
>>22144993Moron.
>>22144943>expert fiddlerTbqh that isn't exclusive to the Devil. Death is depicted as a fiddler pretty commonly in the Danse Macabre. The Judge himself also looks as close to a skull as you can get without tearing the flesh off his face, being totally white and hairless.
>>22145007no need to sign your posts fren
Bros I don't feel good
What's the point of being so smart when you die like anyone else
rip city, homes
>>22144943The "Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent" line is a pretty obvious reference to Lucifer's prideful arrogance in Paradise Lost too.
>>22144979That's fine, but it's there's no harm in savouring the book rather than speedrunning it
>>22143710F
>>22145008Also speaking of Baroque art referenced in BM, this quote here (>>22144886) is a reference to a series of momento mori paintings. Et In Arcadia Ego (Also in Arcadia I am) by Guercino is a painting depicting a skull in Arcadia, which was a mythical paradise land in Greek myth. This phrase was a momento mori, saying that even in Arcadia/Paradise, death is always present. Funnily enough one of the first names given to the Americas was Arcadia. The Judge naming his gun after this might just be a literal thing, like saying "this gun is death", or it might be referring to the Judge himself.
>>22144294She’s real, the implication is he couldn’t get it up, for whatever reason
RIP the last great American author. Nothing but complete trash from here on out.
>>22143910>>22144758Oh God, it’s true
>>22144959>clearlyWhere in the text is this stated
>>22145001Nah
>>22144117It's been less than a day chill out
RIP man.
>>22143787RIP McCarthyThe opening to BM where the drunken father talks about the stars is one of my favorites, as is the bit in Stella Maris where they discuss how alien language really is.
>>22145005Maybe phony would be a better word, something like simulacra. Looking at a picture of the Grand Canyon rather than being there. Houellebecq or even Rooney might write about alienation but not in a way that shows how completely altered and shredded our society is. Maybe that's just a byproduct that now people try to write to gain status and not for the sake of it and some "schizo" has or will write what I mean. Or maybe I'm wrong and it's always been that way.
>>22144168>Do not read ... /tv/... It’s pure dogshit
He looked terrible in the interview 6 months ago.
>>22145053It’s not. See >>22144849. He leaves many things ambiguous on purpose.I’m not a proponent of the kid being the child rapist through the book, nor do I think it makes the story better, but the absolute most brainlet take possible about the ending is ‘le judge murderraped the kid’. The only thing that would garner such a reaction from the people of that town is the mangled corpse of the missing bear girl. It’s embarrassing that the Wendigoon guy didn’t piece that together in his youtube video
You've got to be fucking kidding me...I just woke up from a dream where I talked to him.
>>22144977A theory I've kicked around in my head from time to time is that, if not Satan specifically, the Judge may be the Antichrist, or at the very least a figure consciously designed to be Jesus of Nazareth's polar oppositeChrist:>lowly peasant, works a common job and lacks any extraordinary physical features, born in a small town and has a traceable lineage>actively declines using his abilities unless it serves some specific purpose, avoids vulgar displays of power even when requested>speaks to others in a manner common to the times, appeals to knowledge people in 1st century Palestine would undoubtedly have>tells relatively concise parables that have intelligible meanings, even if they can be cryptic>lays down his life for his friends>protects children>rejects dominion over all the kingdoms of the world, respects free will>advocates compassion, self-sacrifice, and nonviolence>states that God is loveHolden:>is an esteemed, highly educated man with a number of abnormal physical characteristics, has no clearly earthly origin or relatives and just shows up in random places without warning>apparently has magical abilities of some sort, doesn't use them for any practical or helpful purpose and performs a variety of tricks just to confuse and fuck with people>casts pearls before swine, regales uneducated thugs with often-irrelevant academic, scientific, or metaphysical information that they can neither understand or make sense of>tells rambling, unsettling parables that lack any clear message or purpose>leaves his companions to die and attempts to kill others>preys upon children, causes them to stumble and fall>lays claim over all the world and demands its submission to him>rebukes all claims of moral realism and exalts in violence>states that God is war
WHO WAS THE MISSING PASSENGER
>>22144977>>22145085I take him as a manifestation of Manifest Destiny itself, with the devil implications to make it easy for the reader
>>22144961>>22144857>>22144376>>22143936The Trifecta Of Based
Why does everyone good die before Henry Kissinger? What the fuck
>>22143889that's a strange thing to care about
>>22145066>The opening to BM where the drunken father talks about the stars is one of my favoritesI admit I was shocked when I found out that really happened. One of these days someone's going to have to make a study bible for Blood Meridian explaining all the context and allusions McCarthy makes.
>>22144943anyone properly initiated knows his true form
Very sad. We are lucky his work remains.Excellent excerpt(s) from Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian:https://lithub.com/harold-bloom-on-cormac-mccarthy-true-heir-to-melville-and-faulkner/
Rest In Peace.
>>22145100>does the clearly occult adrenochrome guzzling demon get to outlive us all?What do you think is the enticing part about a deal with Satan anon?
>Mr. Suttree it is our understanding that at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.>I was drunk, cried Suttree.Just like me, fr fr.
>>22145105That's just Jashin-chan.
>>22145105the book is so obviously and densely Gnostic it amazes me that people can claim to be fans of it while not being aware of this core fact. That said McarthyBros, I am fucking devastated. I always wanted to meet him.
>>22145081>It’s not. He leaves many things ambiguous on purpose.So don't use the word "clearly" then you gorilla nigger.
>>22144765Margaret AtwoodI know she's Canadian, but she's undeniably in the same league
>>22145103The burning tree is on Christmas.
>>22145084It was a sign
>>22145100Kissinger's going to live to be 110, at least.
>le no quotation marks because I am so fucking special meme authorF and all, but fuck that stupid faggot gimmick.
>>22145126It’s clearly the case, through evidence/deduction, with the given that many things are intentionally ambiguous. Basically the type of idiot who thinks the judge murder-raped the kid is the same idiot who thinks Childs is the Thing because you can’t see his breath or some dumb shit.
>>22145107>Judge Holden, the most frightening figure in all of American literature, murders the Kid in an outhouse. Bloom said it, case closed
>>22144198Best quote in the book, besides the one about them running "into the pandemonium of the sun" after slaughtering the soldiers. Glanton is so fucking great its unreal. The Judge is interesting sure, but he pales in comparison to the man with fuming black meteorites of murder for eyes.
>>22143856Well round near as I can reckon there was a time when the image board that all called a vile pit of self loathing and empty memetics eternally recurring was actually a meeting spot of some of the finest and maybe most retarded minds that came forth from the bowels of the information super highway. What once and never shall be again for time in its meandering linearity was a refuge for the intelligent and babionian among us that we name mankind has now and truly turned itself slowly into a cesspool of shit. Spits and posts about niggers on /pol/. Yessum, I been here before the normalities of humankind strode these here boards. Before the tribalism with Reddit tore asunder every connection you could ever make in the name of bombastic and meek all the same contrarianism. Here too I shall remain until this assumed life flees from me and I become yet another empty vessel as my being becomes one with the cosmos that those who are so inclined wonder at tirelessly. Does a dab Mexicanly and curses the captcha with parched lips and tired eyes.
>>22144952the types of people who become (legitimately talented) writers would rather kill themselves than be reduced to editors for ai-generated paragraphs.
>>22143710NO.NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO.NO.NOOOOOOO.WHAT THE FUCK WHY NO.
>>22145113heh heh, McAnally.
>>22145130I am a bit unnerved. It was the most vivid dream I've had in months and the only one I've woken up and wrote down. Then, the first thing I see when I check my phone is the news of his death. See you on the other side Mcarthy, thanks for talking.
>>22144198This is my favorite too, it’s the best answer to the question of freewill I’ve encountered
>>22143911kek Blood Meridian is the best book you ever read senpai
>>22143710F>>22143733mythterieth*
>>22145141The only thing you seem to be basing your theories on is contrarianism, because you've posted 0% evidence and 100% ""deduction"".
>>22143911>when midwits try to think It always gives me a tinge of sorrow for the potential future of humanity.
>>22144285/tg/ reporting in>Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all.
>>22145166>contrarianism A strange word to use unless you’re under the false idea of a consensus about the ending, Wendigoon. >the absolute most brainlet take possible about the ending is ‘le judge murderraped the kid’. The only thing that would garner such a reaction from the people of that town is the mangled corpse of the missing bear girl.Feel free to argue otherwise. I’m open to being wrong.
>>22144478I read it all in one go the day after my sons 1st birthday. I cried like a bitch on my couch at 3 AM reading the last few pages.
>>22145172I unironically believe the advancement of technology has completely ruined war and thus a vital part of human psychology as well. The game just isn't fun anymore.
>In the 1980s, McCarthy and Edward Abbey considered covertly releasing wolves into southern Arizona to restore their decimated population.Discuss.
>No one moved. In that cold stable the shutting of the door may have evoked in some hearts other hostels and not of their choosing. The mare sniffed uneasily and the young colt stepped about. Then one by one they began to divest themselves of their outer clothes, the hide slickers and raw wool serapes and vests, and one by one they propagated about themselves a great crackling of sparks and each man was seen to wear a shroud of palest fire. Their arms aloft pulling at their clothes were luminous and each obscure soul was enveloped in audible shapes of light as if it had always been so. The mare at the far end of the stable snorted and shied at this luminosity in beings so endarkened and the little horse turned and hid his face in the web of his dam's flank.Even after all the bad these men have done, they all possess the spark. They are capable of forgiveness, they are still human beings, and they still have God's spark buried deep within them. I've come to concur with the analysis of the ending that The Judge does not triumph over The Kid. He rapes and kills The Kid yes, but is only forced to after defeat in his failure to influence him. The Kid never succumbed to The Judge. "He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again."
>>22144943He embodies Faustian civilization. Of course he's the devil.>you ain't nothin>you speak truer than you knowPrivatio boni.Also he has et in Arcadia ego on his gun; he is the infinite abyss of otherworldly evil and ruin and death.And he's the representative of modernity itself and technology and scientism.He is a perfect score on the psychopathy scale; all he does when he talks to people is play frame control games, obfuscate, and self aggrandize. He has no conscience and never sleeps, just like the devil and demons. He is the master of this world much like Satan is the god of this world and he claims suzerainty over the earth. The judge is incomprehensible to the human mind and in trying to understand him one would only find ruin and spiritual death.Final thing, his nemesis in his battle for the Kid's soul is waged with Tobin who was a priest. In their showdown in the boneyard Tobin warns the Kid to hide or tells him to shoot the judge but he does neither. Tobin ends up praying in Latin with a cross he constructed out of bones against the judge.
>>22144660I have ADD and I am medicated for it with some wicked Adderall and I read Corncob. Is there something bad about having ADD or is it just, as the kids would say, the entire vibration about that strawperson?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIcg4CK86MHe belongs to the ages now.
And that's it, American literature's done. RIP
>>22144284this image st8 up got me to read Blood Meridian
>>22145221Same for me. I feel ashamed to admit it.
>>22145221>>22145224lmao thanks for the laugh
>>22145221>>22145224nah, that image is a work of art
>foreveralone and homeless with no friends>distract yourself from your life with books>write letters to cormac mccarthy about your thoughts and your life and how much his books matter to you>decade later you find he wrote a character with your almost exact thoughts and your life>tfw you became your favorite living author's OC>write another letter to corncob>put it in the mail today>few hours later find out he diedI am a catholic. Cormac Mccarthy will now be someone that i pray to for intercession
>>22145229>>22145232And I don't even normally like wojak/pepe edits, so it's even stranger that that image got me to read it.
>>22145237that one is special.
>>22145194>Neighbors, said the reverend, he couldnt stay out of these here hell, hell, hellholes right here in Nacogdoches. I said to him, said: You goin to take the son of God in there with ye? And he said: Oh no. No I aint. And I said: Dont you know that he said I will follow ye always even unto the end of the road? >Well, he said, I aint askin nobody to go nowheres. And I said: Neighbor, you dont need to ask. He's a goin to be there with ye every step of the way whether ye ask it or ye dont. I said: Neighbor, you cant get shed of him. Now. Are you goin to drag him, HIM, into that hellholle yonder?
>>22143837Wtf he’s literally Llewelyn
Damn corncob died and the sticky only has 500 posts lit really is dead
>>22145233https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZa0Yh6e7dwHe was a real one
>>22145221>>22145224For me it was a youtube comment from the Warden’s “God loves violence” monologue from Shutter Island. The comment said the Warden had to be based on the Judge from Blood Meridan, and linked the “War is God” scene from the audiobook. https://youtube.com/watch?v=DXY23gsHXXo
>>22145254nice scene
>>22145110>>22145131I told my mom yesterday that all the mines laid down off the path that has taken the life of a Cambodian or Laotian had not just explosive but also a soul container that transferred life essence to that ghoul.
>>22143810Fucking kek
>>22145233based
>>22145057He was the only reason they were making so much money in donations, retard
>>22144387>Only Americans care when a person dies
>>22143710Rest in peace Mr. McCarthy.
>>22145282Good thing you retorted with the one instance of non-americans caring when somebody died, very worldly of you
>>22145233I want to believe this is true
>How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
>>22145297I remain your most humble servant etc.
KWADB
This is what I wake up to.....
>>22145300it was true. i no longer have the letters but what corncob wrote was exactly, sometimes word for word, what i wrote to him.>>22132684
>>22145313That said I wonder what they will do with the letters cormac received. Will his kids hold onto them? I wonder if the letters still exist in his possession.
>>22145313stop lying you sinner
>>22145313I haven’t read the Passenger yet, do you wish to share which character?
>>22145005>>22145071Thinking some more about what I've said, it's not alienation that is lacking or false in modern-day literature but authenticity, or the lack of it. It's cliched to say now but only because it's true, that no one talks or interacts or just observes anyone else because they're all on their phones. At any major event or even some great disaster half of the crowd will be recording it on their phones, to share it on snapchat or tiktok or whatever with acquaintanes who don't really care about them. People share cherry-picked or straight up fake moments of their life with with strangers to gain some bit of validation.A while ago I read The Old Man and the Sea and thought of it as a normal man vs. nature novel until someone here said it was about authenticity. The old man pours the entirety of his existence into the struggle with the marlin and the sharks and hunger and fatigue, to come out with nothing but the experience itself. The tourists see just the old man and the skeleton of a fish and make a fleeting remark. They observe that great struggle for just a moment and from far away and end up with less than the old man even though he suffered and lost more.Now people are trying to create little fake pictures like what the tourists saw of the old man and sell them to eachother like postcards in a currency of vanity and clout. That's what our modern world is, not alienation. Alienation is nothing new and has been a theme in literature since the Gilded Age. That's what modern literature is missing.
>>22145313>>22145323nevermind I read the thread and saw which character it was, I’ll be on the lookout when I read it
>>22143787How surely are the dead beyond death? Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse.
>>22145233are you Harrowgate?
>>22145281Maybe they're taking time to write a meaningful statement.
>>22143787it's not a great quote but>She came in half nude trailing sarsenet or perhaps just her Grecian sheeting crossing a stone stage in the smoking footlamps or she would push back the cowl of her robe and her blonde hair would fall about her face as she bent to him where he lay in the damp and clammy sheets and whisper to him I’d have been your shadowlane, the keeper of that house alone wherein your soul is safe.almost makes me cry thinking about it. to be so attached to a person, who is completely unlike any other person, and then having to persist in the world without them. heavy stuff. the very last line of stella maris too. RIP to a real one
>>22144303Reading Dostoevsky and tolstoy is equivalent to reading Genre fiction. Cormac is better than both.
>>22144357Pynchon was never really on that level. Currently there is no great author alive after Cormac's passing.
>>22145355pinch and delillo are both on his level
rip
>>22144683Go be butthurt somewhere else
ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shellalagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.
>>22144326Lester Ballard is literally me
>>22143830And after that?
>>22144032lmao what is the source on this image
>>22143856>he's using periods
>>22145373humanity will be extinct or Western culture so utterly destroyed literature won't exist any longer
Dont care, never read him and never will
>>22145358No.
>>22145193They would've all been shot, probably.
>>22143889So you're a hipster.
>>22145397filtered
>>22143911Trying this hard to be counter culture because you spend all your time on 4chan
>>22145417You have bad taste
>>22144117are those the same fags who told him to write Stella Maris? that book was like the ash of a vaquero's tortilla
>>22145420lol
>>22143710RIP Mr. McCarthy.
>>22144285/biz/ standing by
>>22145420No I dont
>>22144285/sp/ here. Glad he got to see his beloved Nuggets win a chip before he passed on.
>>22145426Lol at you retard>>22145439You do
>>22144285/trash/ here>People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
>>22144285/ic/ reporting
>>22143710So long and thanks for all the agua.
>>22143787The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full. Hear me. Ye carry war of a madman’s making onto a foreign land. Ye’ll wake more than the dogs.
>>22144285/vm/ here, see you guys again when DeLillo dies. With the 20th century vanguard dying out who should I look to for new American literature? All the institutions I used to trust for critical consensus became compromised and useless after the nineties.>And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men's journeys.
>>22144343Need a whole book like this
damn, RIP. Blood Meridian is the only book I've ever read. i'm from /tv/ btw
Why was McCarthy such a redditor science worshiper?>McCarthy had an aversion to other writers, preferring the company of scientists. He voiced his admiration for scientific advances: "What physicists did in the 20th century was one of the extraordinary flowerings ever in the human enterprise."[21] At MacArthur reunions, McCarthy shunned his fellow writers to fraternize instead with scientists like physicist Murray Gell-Mann and whale biologist Roger Payne. Of all of his interests, McCarthy stated, "Writing is way, way down at the bottom of the list."https://youtu.be/wfYr5zF-oNsHe was a soulless materialist.
>>22145514Fuck off
>>22144285/pol/, /fit/ and /o/ ascended crossposter reporting in, RIP
>>22144683McCarthy was 3 times the writer Cuckner ever was. The only reason they suck off Cuckner is because /lit/ is incapable of interesting themselves in anything more than Soap opera tier plots and "mih racism". Same reason they love trash like Dostoevsky.
>>22145514>doesn't understand mccarthy or any of his writings whatsoeverfucking zoomers lol
>>22144285/vrpg/ standing by. Locking onesie flap in attack position. Rest easy old man. >>22144822A beautiful passage.
Who cares about him as a person He was an edgy deep south conservative. He's better off dead no matter how good of a writer he is.
>>22144285/aco/ standing by. RIP
>>22145535>>22145519
>>22145514
>>22145549You're outing yourself as a faggot regardless of what your point was about McCarthy's views
>>22145533Cormac's stories are uninteresting and in trying to be as """neural""" as possible his works just wallow in nihilism and reduce human nature to le bad. His prose is the only thing he's known for.
>>22145514>>22145549Retard moment
>>22145553why even make memes at this point
>>22145560>neural *neutral I mean
>>22145549kid mccarthy's writing has a ton of soul and spiritual belief in them, you're a faggot zoomer for thinking he's some faggot atheist like you are
>>221455604chan moment
>>22145560>reduce human nature to le bad.t. read the blood meridian wiki page
>>22144285/k/ here, he was one of ours
>>22145182Achilles is impossible in the age of mechanization
>>22145565>soul and spiritual beliefIt's just violence murderhobo shit lmao
Opening page and a bit of Suttree is arguably one of the best openings of all time.“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.Old stone walls unplumbed by weathers, lodged in their striae fossil bones, limestone scarabs rucked in the floor of this once inland sea. Thin dark trees through yon iron palings where the dead keep their own small metropolis. Curious marble architecture, stele and obelisk and cross and little rainworn stones where names grow dim with years. Earth packed with samples of the casketmaker's trade, the dusty bones and rotted silk, the deathwear stained with carrion. Out there under the blue lamplight the trolleytracks run on to darkness, curved like cockheels in the pinchbeck dusk. The steel leaks back the day's heat, you can feel it through the floors of your shoes. Past these corrugated warehouse walls down little sandy streets where blownout autos sulk on pedestals of cinderblock. Through warrens of sumac and pokeweed and withered honeysuckle giving onto the scored clay banks of the railway. Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick. A steamshovel reared in solitary abandonment against the night sky. Cross here. By frograils and fishplates where engines cough like lions in the dark of the yard. To a darker town, past lamps stoned blind, past smoking oblique shacks and china dogs and painted tires where dirty flowers grow. Down pavings rent with ruin, the slow cataclysm of neglect, the wires that belly pole to pole across the constellations hung with kitestring, with bolos composed of hobbled bottles or the toys of the smaller children. Encampment of the damned. Precincts perhaps where dripping lepers prowl unbelled. Above the heat and the improbable skyline of the city a brass moon has risen and the clouds run before it like watered ink. The buildings stamped against the night are like a rampart to a farther world forsaken, old purposes forgot. Countrymen come for miles with the earth clinging to their shoes and sit all day like mutes in the marketplace. This city constructed on no known paradigm, a mongrel architecture reading back through the works of man in a brief delineation of the aberrant disordered and mad. A carnival of shapes upreared on the river plain that has dried up the sap of the earth for miles about."
>>22145560This. But let the soulless materialist scum worship their author.
>>22145577ok zoomer lol
Wild. I think my favourite thing about Cormac McCarthy was his absolute insistence to write and to live on his own terms. No matter what anyone else says the man did his thing the way he wanted it to do and for that alone I’ve always liked him. And to do so, have success and make it to 89 well, that ain’t half bad all things considered. He was a real one that’s for sure.
>>22145581Ok satan worshipper
RIP, Saint. Your war is over.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOoXTggzoFk
>>22145560>nihilismYou have never read McCarthy.>he is only known for his proseAnd that's like 95% of his writing, so a good thing.
>>22145553I want to see a sitcom about those two guys.
>>22143710He was like a grandmother to me.
>>22145605He's just an edgier version of Quentin Tarantino lmao
>>22145609Not applicable. Improve.
>>22145578The rest indeed is silence. It has begun to rain. Light summer rain, you can see it falling slant in the town lights. The river lies in a grail of quietude. Here from the bridge the world below seems a gift of simplicity. Curious, no more. Down there in grots of fallen light a cat transpires from stone to stone across the cobbles liquid black and sewn in rapid antipodes over the raindark street to vanish cat and countercat in the rifted works beyond. Faint summer lightning far downriver. A curtain is rising on the western world. A fine rain of soot, dead beetles,anonymous small bones. The audience sits webbed in dust. Within the guted sockets of the interlocutor’s skull a spider sleeps and the jointed ruins of the hanged fooldangle from the flies, bone pendulum in motley. Fourfooted shapes go to and fro over the boards. Ruder forms... survive.
>>22145605>y-you just haven't read ityou've said it million times by now. Cope of the century.
>>22145609Kill yourself butthurt fag. Have some decency and awareness of the situation we are in, and the thread you are in. Fucking ridiculous how insecure you people are.
I find it surprising that those who read and watch fiction has less than normal amount of empathy in them, excluding me of course, Rest in Peace
>>22145617I am only being generous to you. If you have read it then you just lack the braincells to decipher what you read. Aka a retard.
>>22145621>Have some decency and awareness of the situation we are in, and the thread you are in.some old fart died? Like all other old people? What an unfortunate and unexpected situation
>>22145624Now comes the second cope of the century
>>22145622Faulknercucks are among the most insecure people on this board, along with Melvillecucks. They roam this board in constant shadow of McCarthy's presence despite proclaiming their allegiances to be GOATs.
>>22145626Find a busy intersection.
>>22145609kek
>>22145628Your whole life is a cope
>>22145629This board only obsess over Mccarthy because he's a right winger. /lit/'s taste is politically motivated.
I can believe he died. That's something that happens to people. People die. They die. Cormac died. And one day, one day, I'll die, and I'll die. I'll die. One day. One day. One day. You die. We all die. For me, I'll be a statistic for the government, however. McCarthy will be remember. When I die, I'll be gone, vanished into a number on the government's website. But McCarthy will be on another website. Cormac will be the "was" from "is" on Wikipedia. His death means he once "was": but is still on Wikipedia as a name. His consciousness is no longer here. The same will happen to me and you. Our consciousness will die, but we'll be a "was" on some website. For most of us it won't be on Wikipedia like Cormac is. One day.
>>22145636He'll only be remembered as long as /lit/ remains alive and active.
>>22145636everything will go away ion the end, anon. legacy is a façade. Nothing is immoral.
>>22145635>right wingerJust fuck off.
>>22145629>Faulknercucks are among the most insecure people on this board, along with Melvillecucks.Well seeing as you need to read 120 pages in the first to learn why what you’re about to read isn’t terrible you can understand the insecurity around Faulknerfolk. At least Melville has an indisputable masterpiece under his belt.
>>22145641>At least Melville has an indisputable masterpiece under his belt.btw it's Benito Cerano for anyone who's interested
>>22145640Ok
>>22145644>>22145609
>>22145645>An environmentalist is a right wingerBrain damaged. All classical liberals say the same about neoliberals you retard.
>>22145640Met him irl once and I laughed my ass off when he called baldwin a paranoid nigger faggotnot even joking. He was based.
>>22145655You do know that Hitler was an "environmentalist" too, right? Environmentalism has many strands from all across the political spectrum
Fuck, dude. This really does suck. I own No Country for Old Men, but haven't yet read any of his works; I was really looking forward to reading him, but it's going to sting when I finally crack open his body of work knowing that the poor bastard is gone. RIP.
>>22145630Okay, now what
>>22145659What did you like about No Country for Old Men, /tv/tard?
>>22145645>tfw you will never hang out in the desert with Cormac McCarthy and Edward Abbey.
My friend literally texted me sorry for your loss.You all better read at least one McCarthy novel you haven't read yet this year. I'm going to read Suttree in his honor.
>>22143710Big F
>>22145670No, thanks. I'll stick to other better writers.
>>22145662Stand in it for 2 hours
Legends never die.
>>22145670>Bro going all sentimental for someone he doesn't even know
>>22143710Rest in power Cormac
>>22145682So he wasn't a legend?
>>22145676Roundabout of saying you don't read
>Its actually realRIP Mr McCarthy. Thanks for all the great reads. The Passenger was a breath of fresh in this new world.
>>22145655The context is important here. He thought without alpha animals beta animals were growing in population. He also considered wolf to be his spirit animal.The authorities had to step in to take action because those wolves were destroying the local eco system and causing trouble. All in all, it was a stupid move.
>>22144749No, no, no, no and no. Much projection, methinks.
>>22144285/lgbt/, wanted to cancel him because he's white but I really liked NCFOM so whatever...
>last great American author dies>Literature board sticky can't even reach 1000 posts /lit/ is dead
he was the single greatest living artist, not just of literature but of all the arts. His loss is like that of Shakespeare or Beethoven. What are we left with now of his stature?
>>22145688No, he is a legend so his "death" is but an illusion.
I'll read Stella Maris now.
>>22145712Literally nothing will ever be published that is as good as blood meridianLiterature will continue to devolve. From Moby dick to blood meridian, from blood meridian to ducks, Newport.
>>22145715He's a djinn?
>>22145670I would not ever read anything written by an american
>>22145717Literature has already devolved thanks to his punctuation hateboner
The breathing author is dead, but the writing author stays alive to write what we will forever read.>Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His work lies all wheres and his hounds tire not. I have seen them in a dream, slaverous and wild and their eyes crazed with ravening for souls in this world. Fly them.
As a yuropoor, I don't get why amerimutts love this dude. Can anyone fill me in? Why do his works resonate with the American population?
>>22145708/lit/ is the slowest mainstream board. This is the first thread in a long time to have 300+ unique posters. This is just the way it is.
>>22145728Go and fuck yourself, you miserable piece of aborted shit.
>>22145670I just started The Sound and The Fury, but I'll read No Country when I'm done
>>22145728Lots of violence and casual N word usage. Americans are fed up with ideologies/ethics/morals so his nihilistic works with impartial gaze feel like a breath of fresh air. He's a very important pomo writer.
>>22145085Quality post
>>22145737Are you on periods, my nigga?>>22145739I'll never understand amerimutts
>>22145739>Americans are fed up with ideologies/ethics/moralsYeah it takes a toll on you to ethically justify all those wars and coups and interventions ;^)
>>22145743I'm not your nigga
>>22144503England is less relevant now than the US. You're obviously butthurt about it.
>>22145762I'm very sorry to have upset you. Not very well-versed in american culture, I admit to have made a regrettable mistake that has offended your cultural sensibilities. Please forgive me and my hood, my cracka.
>>22145644Based.
>>22145741Samefagging in a sticky is illegal desu
First Ted now this, what an awful week
>>22145767>England is less relevant now than the USAnd Cormac McCarthy is less relevant now than JK Rowling. What's your point?
>>22144627I have attention problems as well, but i can't stand people who do shit like that. They game and barely watch videos at the same time then get distracted. I doubt these people have situational awareness. If you need constant stimulation or have to always have music or a podcast on while doing everything, you're a psycho.
>>22145774Yeah awful people died
>>22145670I'm obsessed with him and read everything a few times, except for Suttree. I'm afraid to, because people say its just as good as BM (I dont want to get it dethroned) and now I'm especially upset because once I read it there will be no more mountains to climb.
>>22145778Grrm is more relevant than fucking jk fucking rowling kek
>>22144285/an/ here, awaiting orders!
>>22145778My point is you're a whiny ass cynical pessimistic brit. Classic British arrogance. Can't stand not being #1 anymore. Criticisms that you guys call banter. You're a country full of old crotchety assholes. Always negative, always criticizing others. An island full of pessimistic has-been losers.
>>22145514People who actually pursue science seriously (not "I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE") know that it's often indistinguishable from theology>the first sip of the sciences will make you an atheist, but God is waiting for you at the bottom of the glass
>>22145788>>>/reddit/
>>22145803Imagine unironically simping for ted and calling others redditor
Bros I have a confession to make, I tried to read Suttree once and I could not make it 15 pages in. It was like trying to butt my head through a brick wall. I just waded through it like wading through mud and I didn't even make it 20 pages before I had to call it quits.Should I try again? Should I read one of his other books instead?
>>22145813the first 20 pages are the most demanding. it levels out a bit later. Give it another try anon.
>>22145816lol
>>22144765Logo Daedalus.
>>22143787Not a quote but there’s a scene in Blood Meridian where the Judge and his men run out of gunpowder, so he has them dig a hole, he jumps in it, and they begin pissing in the hole. Combined with sulfur, they get a rudimentary form of gunpowder, and the Judge climbs out and they mow down their enemies. An unholy, grotesque, ridiculous baptism. And the Judge is described as laughing all throughout.
>>22143710first kaczynski now mccarthy, this month keeps getting worstF
>>22145655You can't spell conservationist without conservativ...e
>>22145796It appears my superiority has led to some controversy.
>>22145834that was a very vivid and memorable scene.
>>22145670I've had The Crossing for about a year now after I got it in a charity shop. I'll read the entire Border Trilogy after I get the other two.
>>22145857it's honestly amazing how britain has fallen so dramatically. 50 years to completely undermine an empire that took 200 years to build
i am anglo
is it really my turn already? shit man.
RIP corncob mcchicken
>>22145645isnt there a tranny in passenger?
>>22145834he just stole that from the foxfire books
>>22143824Beautiful. Seeing her crumble toward the end was heartbreaking
>>22143710>>22143851I decided to read Suttree after reading an essay by Roger Ebert in which he described his difficulties and return to happiness after losing his ability to speak and eat. He wrote this about Suttree:>At first when I could not speak, I could not read easily, because sedation had undermined my attention span. I was depressed. I could turn on the TV, but why? My wife brought a wonderful DVD player to my hospital room, but I could not make myself watch movies. My life was stale and profitless. I would spend hours in a murky stupor. Knowing I had always been reading a book, my concerned wife began reading to me: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens.>Curiously, my love of reading finally returned after I picked up Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, a book I had already read not long before my first surgery. Now I read it two more times. I was not "reading the same book." I was reentering the same experience, the same occult and visionary prose, the life of Suttree so urgently evoked. As rarely before, a book became tactile to me. When Suttree on his houseboat pulled a cord and brought up a bottle of orange soda pop from the cool river, I savored it. I could no longer taste. I tasted it more sharply than any soda I've ever really had. When Suttree stopped at the bus station for a grilled cheese, I ate it, and the pickle, and drank the black coffee. I began to live through this desperate man's sad life.https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/i-think-im-musing-my-mind
>>22143710>“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.” Put a good word in for us with the Horts or whoever else you find out there. F
for the last few months or so, I have started narrating my actions out loud in the style of Cormac McCarthy whenever I make and eat what I call a "mccarthy breakfast"a "mccarthy breakfast" consists of eggs, beans, tortillas, coffee and sometimes peppers or toast or potatoesthe best part is that you can have any of the components of a "mccarthy breakfast" cold, lukewarm, hot, or burnt and it is all different and deliciousI eat this ten or fifteen times a month and I have gotten real good at eating and narrating the "mccarthy breakfast"for example this morning:>The man bought out some tins of beans and scooped it into a spare plate.>He put on a pan to make coffee with. He watched the fire and boiled water and got a cup.>The man cooked beans and eggs and cornmeal made from meal and water and sat eating.>The man did not want to wash his dishes so he used the tortillas to spoon the eggs.>The man ate the big plate of eggs and tortillas and drank coffee.sometimes, I'll add a protein like ham or bacon or vienna sausages and have a "mccarthy dinner"I eat the "mccarthy dinner" in complete silence with no narration or thoughtsby my estimation, I eat a "mccarthy dinner" about five to ten times a month
>>22143985Those last few paragraphs are really something else.
>>22144100Those and the oil platform chapter. I've been thinking about it for months
Has there ever been a modern author who spoke so clearly to men and was so alien to women?He was too masculine for GlobalHomo, bros. He had to go.
>>22143985There was a time when, seemingly out of nowhere, I began to have a hard time visualising while reading. I read through Blood Meridian with only vague flashes of what was being described. Then I came to that section and I could see it all in my minds eye, as clear as anything. I never used to get people when they said reading for them is like a movie in their head, but for that moment it was as they say. When I think of this book, their approach is the first thing that comes to mind.
>>22143710Maybe in heaven they'll finally teach him how to use punctuation.
>>22145903>foxfire booksI thought it was from Paradise Lost, alluding to Lucifer teaching the angels how to make weapons for their rebellion against God.
>>22145946I want pseuds like you to stop shitting up the board
>>22144438Yes, this one. This is one of his best.>Old distaff Celt's bloodThat's too good>He looked at a world of incredible loveliness.O wonder! / How many goodly creatures are there heere? / How beauteous mankinde is>A cool green fire kept breaking in the woodsI wonder what this could mean though. Any help?
>>22145957Filtered
>>22145946In heaven they are going to fuck you in the ass
midwits first serious authorwhen they try to tackle anything that is not blood memeridian, this happens: >>22145813why is it that gamers and mouthbreathers are so obsessed with this book? is it because it is so le violent or is it because they havent read anything else?
I literally started reading Blood Meridian yesterday
>>22143792Was that the one lamenting over the Lazarus situation? I agree that was an incredible bit if so. I don’t have a favorite specific line (and my copy is being borrowed so I can’t look up any from Suttree which is my favorite) but his dream bar scene near the end of Suttree is one of my favorites I’ve ever read
>>22145974no
>>22145939>and was so alien to women?I'm genuinely curious what the women's Cormac McCarthy would look like. Someone who can singularly invoke ancient femininity and all its vices and virtues like McCarthy does for masculinity. Does Jane Austen count?
>>22143710My sanity is decaying at an alarming rate and I fear I will commit awful crimes in moments of hysteria.
>>22145100Wanting Kissinger to die is reddit.
Just ordered the Passenger box set. Read BM and Sutt, lets see how he goes out.
>>22143710Here to pay my respects, RIP
>>22145974I read No Country For Old Men when I was in 9th grade for a book report. Got a 100% on it. Just now started to read Blood Meridian and I love it. I grew up in Southern California and then have been living in western North Dakota for the past 7 years so all the characters even the judge are literally people I've met/interacted with. Which isn't a good thing but I'm still alive and it's nice to see a book author capture all that.
>>22144285/n/ here. Horses are transportation
>>22144943I think part of him represents the idea of scientific "progress". Man charts the world and bends it to his will. The judge spends so much of his time observing and documenting nature, and the good that it brings are tools of destruction. The pursuit of knowledge, at the level of the species if not the particular individual, is a bloody affair.
>>22146001For some reason books a million had the signed version in stock today. I’m almost certain it was an error, but I’m hoping it wasn’t. Anyway, I think everyone would agree that it isn’t his best, but there’s something unique and enchanting about it. Like a warm, sad hug.
This guy didn't care about me, why should I care about him?
>>22145327Interesting post. I think I'll read the Old Man and the Sea soon
>>22145066>the bit in Stella Maris where they discuss how alien language really is.If you haven't already, check out Cormac's nonfiction essay "The Kekule Problem". He talks about the same idea.
>>22146015Because he gave you beautiful things, even if you don’t ever get around to experiencing them
>It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.Corncob was the absolute best
>>22143710Ah shit.
>>22144427>less people
>>22143710yay, finally free of the meat prison
Rest in peace
>>22146023I wouldn't label blood meridian as beautiful. It's full of disgusting murderhobo shit and he doesn't even denounce that shit.
>>22146049>and he doesn't even denounce that shit.Do you really need to have the narrator directly tell you that something is bad in order to understand its badness?
>>22145100You do know that Mccarthy likes kissinger?
>>22144285/lgbt/ reporting in, he was a trans ally, SM had a tranny.
>>22146051No, but this dude clearly jerks off to this shit. There's no thematic intent in the narrative/subtext that points towards any denunciation. It's superficial even as an analysis of human condition at extremes. I am convinced he just likes violence in fiction and nothing more or less.
>>22145727Great passage. I think of this often. RIP
>>22146059Just cause something has a tranny doesn't mean it approves trannies. He was just your average deep south redneck when it comes to his pol opinions.
>>22146051Watched a piece of that 5-hour Blood Meridian video that people are talking about ITT, and I swear to god 40% of the video is dude saying "these are BAD PEOPLE. they are saying UNACCEPTABLE THINGS. they are BIGOTED and INTOLERANT. they are saying BAD WORDS. that makes them less civilized than the Native Americans." like Jesus Christ, dude, what's the fucking point of reading history or historically-based stuff just to judge which instances would get a modern person fired by HR? in a book about the fundamental brutality of man, filled with rape and murder and desolation, you're gonna spend half your time making it clear that you think racial slurs are unacceptable?
>>22145813Keep trying. It takes time to get familiar with the style. After say 50 pages you'll be able to read without rereading every other paragraph. Though you may choose to because you just read something beautiful.
f for corn cob
>>22146065Cause it's recent history whose consequences we are still grappling with. It's okay to make moral judgements about manifest destroy being bad and white people definitely behaved like barbarians.
>>22146059>trans allyFuck off to your containment zone already
>>22143710faggot. never read mutt literature
>>22146025fuck man
>>22146070but it's abundantly obvious. it's the whole point of the book. focusing on their insensitive language is missing the forest for a single tree.
>>22146077>it's just obvious bro.many people disagree, especially ones on the right and marxists. You're just projecting your own opinions onto Mccarthy's intentionally ambivalent portrayal.
Ordered Blood Meridian and No Country because of this (live in an area with no book shops left other than the YA/guide stuff in places like Target and Big W)what am I in for bros, been a while since I tried reading literature for pleasure and all the art hoes loved his work
>>22145791Suttree is probably 3 times better than blood meridian
>>22145727Amen
>>22146080if the slaughter and depravity aren't obviously bad, then the no-no words are far less obviously bad.
>says he'll never die>dies
>>22146088Yeah. I don't think Mccarthy thinks any of that shit is bad. He was just having fun with his fetishes.
>>22143710R.I.P.
>>22146080Marxists support manifest destiny?
>>22146094>the curtains are blue cuz he wanted them to be blue, brotard alert
>>22146097Yes but in amoral terms because muh materialism. Marx also supported British colonization of India because it's the only way to get rid of primitive modes of production and develop modern proletariat who'll go on to revolt against capitalism in Crisis(source: The future results of British colonization in India by Karl Marx). He pretty much supported white people genociding native Americans and wanted to settle in new york irrc
>>22146104Better than projecting your shit without any evidence. Mccarthy leaves no trace of anything like 'violence/manifest destiny bad' either in the narrative structure or thematic subtext for a reason.>inb4 but it's obvious common sense
>>22146104What are you getting at exactly? No words should be no-no words and this site wouldn’t be here for you to shit up with your asinine limp wrist pussy faggot bullshit if not for what you’re decrying. Indians and whites acted equally savage, man is savage at heart always have been always will be. All colors equally.
>>22146105Marxoids are no different than nazis and yet they are not as demonized as nazis. I don't get it.
>>22143900Thanks for paying your respects, Rabbi.
>>22146113>Indians and whites acted equally savageNot really. Whites betrayed natives, intentionally drove them off their lands in contravention of treaties. They surrounded natives from all sides, destroying their livelihood and driving them to reservations where they died of poverty and hunger and disease.Also not natives aren't a monolith. Northeastern natives were pretty egalitarian and southern ones were violent for example.
>>22146113That's what I'm saying. The dude I'm arguing with was defending the video essayist for belaboring the point that the Glantons are bad people for having regressive racial attitudes because "manifest destiny is recent history"
>kaczynski and mccarthy in one weekit hurts bros
>>22146126You literally said manifest destiny is obviously a bad thing, you retarded nigger.
Everyone is equally savage is as retarded of a take as everyone is equally good
>>22146130No I didn't you fucking autist, I said the massacring and the raping is obviously more important and does most of the work of establishing the main theme; i.e. the inherent monstrousness of man
>>22146111What about the depiction of the suffering of the man and his wife when Glanton shows up and starts hanging him to get him to say where David Brown is? What about the part where the judge throws puppies off the cliff? What about the kid telling the judge "you aint nothin" at the end? What about the unceremonious death of Glanton and his pathetic insult as his head is chopped?These all speak to a condemnation of the violence. Did you want him to write some biblical "The kid saw the violence, and it was bad"? Maybe books aren't for you.
not corncob :(
>>22146128Who will be the third?
>>22146141>Did you want him to write some biblical "The kid saw the violence, and it was bad"?This is genuinely what retards ITT and Youtube "essayist" both want. They want unambiguous moral condemnation, as if it's in any way interesting, but their vision of morality is so impoverished that they can't distinguish between degrees of sinfulness, and thus it becomes worthwhile to condemn child murderers for saying the N-word
>>22146157GRRM. Now that will be some good news
>>22143710pouring one out for my nigga cmac right nowrip the goat
>>22146138You're a lying swarthy hairless ape nigger. You literally said it here >>22146077
>>22146165You are deeply tiresome, lack basic reading comprehension, and I'm not interested in this argument
>>22146160Those who say the N word don't just say the N word for its sake. It hints at their politics and their moral compass, and that's why the nigger word is taken as a heuristic to judge a person's character these days. It's not that hard to understand.
>>22146170Do you think manifest destiny was justified or not? Give it to me straight instead of beating around the bush like a kike. Because that way we'll know you're just projecting your morals.
Something wrong I hold my headCormac goneA nigga dead!
>>22146171>taken as a heuristic to judge a person's character these days>these daysthe book happens in the 19th century, which is my entire fucking point
>>22146181The video is made in the 21st century. Who'll risk coming across as a racist and losing their job considering BM is considered right wing literature by libs.
>>22146178>Do you think manifest destiny was justified or notI don't know who he is
>>22146064Alas, no anon, it is well know that in his youth gay hobos were close to him read Suttre, he was more of a pre70s libertarian.
>>22143710My condolences. I'll start reading Blood Meridian to honor his legacy.
>>22146189Kill yourself tranny
>>22143710rip to the comma man
>>22146232May Satan team him punctuation in hell
>>22143710Damn. This one really hurt.Thanks for all the great stories man. It's a shame to never hear from you again.
>>22146242>>22146195>>22146164This must be a bot or samefaggingwhat's with all this substanceless superficial praise ITT
>>22146245>"substanceless" (lol) superficial criticism of "substanceless" (lmao, even) superficial praise
>>22146245sad that you dont know the beauty of enjoying things simply
>>22143710oh gg
everything's coming up Milhouse!
>>22143710Owari da...
>>22143874Based
CAST HIM
>>22145358Pinecone yes but idk about delillo
>>22143733I fucking hate american television so much
>>22146371Read Libra
>>22146361Hyper realistic CGI. It will make the viewer feel uncomfortable when everything is real and only he always feels a bit "off".
>>22143787>>22145347I think about this page a lot.
>>22143710That's Sad. Who's the greatest living writer now?
>>22144738Patrick Swayze was great in that.
>>22145418>noooooo you cant disagree with my pleb taste you're a contrarian!Right.
>>22143787>Anyone got any favourite quotes?1. "Mountain storms" 2. The passage about the train on fire in Suttree 3. "Night storms"kino
Goddammit, I still haven't recovered from Uncle Ted's departure
>>22145127She hasn't written anything worthwhile in 20 years. Really, she's written almost exclusively sappy-yet-well-written muck for close to 20 years.
>>22146458Kill yourself retard
Fuck it. Im gonna order the border trilogy and commit to reading them back to back. RIP.
>>22145224dont feel ashamed. I got into XRA because of a virgin vs chad meme
>>22145233>I am a catholicif you are in the vatican ii sect then you are an apostate
>>22146406Tommy Pinecone, or maybe Sally Rooney.
Who is the closest to a real life Judge Holden?And why is it Oskar Dirlewanger?
I don't like this. Pynchon and Delillo are also getting really old
>>22143787>Anyone got any favourite quotes?Here are twelve from hundreds. Requiescat in pace.1)Mr Ownby?Yessir.I represent the Welfare Bureau for the county.Welfare?Yes. We ... you see, we help people.The old man turned that over in his mind. He didn’t seem to be paying much attention to the thin young man standing just inside the door. He scratched his jaw and then he said, Well, I ain’t got nothin. I don’t reckon I can hep yins any.— The Orchard Keeper (1965)2)Holme looked at the man. The fire had died some and he could see him better, sitting beyond it and the scene compressed into a kind of depthlessness so that the black woods beyond them hung across his eyes oppressively and the man seemed to be seated in the fire itself, cradling the flames to his body as if there were something there beyond all warming.— Outer Dark (1968)3)The sales girl unleaned herself from the counter. She and Ballard were about the same height. She said: What size did you need?Ballard looked at her. Size, he said.Did you know her size?He rubbed his jaw. He'd never seen the girl standing up. He looked at the salesgirl. I don't know what size she takes, he said.Well how big is she?I don't believe she's as big as you.Do you know how much she weighs?She'll weigh a hunnerd pounds or better.The girl looked at him sort of funny. She must be just small, she said.She ain't real big.They're over here, said the girl, leading the way.— Child of God (1973)4)Used to be a hobo right smart. Back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could do. I was ridin through the mountains one night, state of Colorado. Dead of winter it was and bitter cold. I had just a smidgin of tobacco, bout enough for one or two smokes. I was in one of them old slatsided cars and I'd been up and down in it like a dog tryin to find some place where the wind wouldnt blow. Directly I scrunched up in a corner and rolled me a smoke and lit it and thowed the match down. Well, they was some sort of stuff in the floor about like tinder and it caught fire. I jumped up and stomped on it and it aint done nothin but burn faster. Wasnt two minutes the whole car was afire. I run to the door and got it open and we was goin up this grade through the mountains in the snow with the moon on it and it was just blue looking and dead quiet out there and them big old black pine trees going by. I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I dont think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around the bend and them flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.— Suttree (1979)[1/3]
>>22146550Carl Panzram
>>221465655)The man looked up wearily. You aint callin me a liar are ye son?I aint ye son.How old are you?That's some more of your business.How old are you?He's fifteen.You hush your damn mouth.He turned to the man. He dont speak for me, he said.He's done spoke. I was fifteen year old when I was first shot.I ain't never been shot.You aint sixteen yet neither.— Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (1985)6)The boy who rode on slightly before him sat a horse not only as if he'd been born to it which he was but as if were he begot by malice or mischance into some queer land where horses never were he would have found them anyway. Would have known that there was something missing for the world to be right or he right in it and would have set forth to wander wherever it was needed for as long as it took until he came upon one and he would have known that that was what he sought and it would have been.— All the Pretty Horses (1992)7)In the morning before it was quite light he walked out of the compound and down to the river. He walked out over the plank bridge on its stone piers and stood looking down at the clear cold waters of the Casas Grandes running out of the mountains to the south. He turned and looked downstream. A hundred feet away in water to her thighs stood the primadonna naked. Her hair was down and it was wet and clinging to her back and it reached to the water. He stood frozen. She turned and swung her hair before her and bent and lowered it into the river. Her breasts swung above the water. He took off his hat and stood with his heart laboring under his shirt. She raised up and gathered her hair and twisted out the water. Her skin so white. The dark hair under her belly almost an indelicacy.She bent once more and trailed her hair in the water with a swaying motion sideways and then stood and swung it about her in a great hoop of spray and stood with her head back and her eyes closed. The sun rising over the gray ranges to the east lit the upper air. She held one hand up. She moved her body, she swept both hands before her. She bent and caught her falling hair in her arms and held it and she passed one hand over the surface of the water as if to bless it and he watched and as he watched he saw that the world which had always been before him everywhere had been veiled from his sight. She turned and he thought she might sing to the sun. She opened her eyes and saw him there on the bridge and she turned her back and walked slowly up out of the river and was lost to his view among the pale standing trunks of the cottonwoods and the sun rose and the river ran as before but nothing was the same nor did he think it ever would be.— The Crossing (1994)[2/3]
>>221465708)John Grady let the curtains fall back across the glass and turned and sat staring into the empty cup before him. There were grounds in the bottom of the cup and he swirled the cup and looked at them. Then he swirled them the other way as if he'd put them back the way they'd been.— Cities of the Plain (1998)9)He closed his eyes and he turned his head and he raised one hand to fend away what could not be fended away. Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him.— No Country for Old Men (2005)10)This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.— The Road (2006)11)Why is the lamp of wrong always sheltered from the wind?— The Passenger (2022)12)The oldest known violin is an Amati believed to be from 1564 that’s in the Ashmolean at Oxford. The oldest instrument we studied was from 1580 and the latest was probably a German violin from the 1960s. Aside from the angle of the neck they were the same. Nothing had changed. Nothing.That seems rather remarkable.Yes. What’s even more remarkable is that there is no prototype to the violin. It simply appears out of nowhere in all its perfection.And what do you make of that? You’ve told me this for a reason.It’s just another mystery to add to the roster. Leonardo cant be explained. Or Newton, or Shakespeare. Or endless others. Well. Probably not endless. But at least we know their names. But unless you’re willing to concede that God invented the violin there is a figure who will never be known. A small man who went with his son into the stunted forests of the little iceage of fifteenth century Italy and sawed and split the maple trees and put the flitches to dry for seven years and then stood in the slant light of his shop one morning and said a brief prayer of thanks to his creator and then — knowing this perfect thing — took up his tools and turned to its construction. Saying now we begin.I’m sorry. This gentleman is very close to your heart.Sorry. Yes. Very close. Time’s up.— Stella Maris (2022)
>>22146550>>22146568actually this Nazi is a better choice. just read his wiki.
>>22146578god, fix your fucking ugly formatting
>>22144196Kill yourself faggot
>>22143710I dreamt the end of the world tonight, and I wake up to this.Rest in peace.
f, honorary texan.
Damn. For some reason I wasn't expecting it.
> biggest thread on /lit/ in a year> it's a twitter screenshot
>>22143710Man, everyone's dying these days. May he rest in peace.
Rip Cormac you absolute legend
>>22146081Something different. I thought he was alright. Seemed a real cool guy though, lived life on his terms and made it to 89. Pretty good run.
>>22146065I felt Wendigoon really didn't do that at all, he avoided saying slurs because they would get his channel shut down but otherwise he doesn't dwell on it much.
>>22143850Is the person laying railway tracks?
>>22146709Are you two niggers having an argument about the representation of this niggah’s work (may he RIP) by some grifting youtubeniggers?
>>22146065Wendigoon is a Mormon, of course he has to signal that BM is a book full of bad people.
>>22146723Embarrassing and shameful
>>22146732You fuckhead, you made me google that YouTuber. I asked cause I thought it interesting that itt to remember the author this is what two anons were doing. I still think it’s interesting just now I also think that you’re a fuckhead.
>>22143889You're not special because you read his books before he dies, you retarded hipster faggot
>>22146737Calm down. I was saying it's embarrassing to listen to a YouTubers opinion about literature. You shouldn't do that. Look up a lecture from a respectable college.
>>22146070>I deliberately read a book by Cormac McCarthy, a writer who chooses to focus on man's proclivity to violence, and now I'm mad. How could this be happening to me?
>>22146081>and all the art hoes loved his workWhy do you post on /lit/?
>>22146766He's probably here because dude just died>>22146081Stylistically, expect an imposing, slightly baroque prose style combined with sparse punctuation. Pretty macho, but it almost always works. Thematically, it's stark, semi-existentialist stuff combined with a shitload of matter-of-fact violence. He's also way fucking funnier than anyone gives him credit for. Dry as fuck, but super funny
>>22146064he wasnt a deep south redneck he's from urban tennessee and was raised by a lawyer, spent his youth in chicago, went to college to major in english which is only what privileged kids dohe talks about hicks and rednecks, but he wasnt one himself
>>22146787A succinct and eloquent description.
>a generic product of the entertainment industry diesgood
>>22145233do you think Cormac would have enjoyed Berserk?
>>22143889> 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 deathGood.
>>22143710I bet McCarthy sales skyrocket
>>22146755I had no idea who the YouTuber was and that’s why I had to ask. Cause the whole anons arguing YouTubers opinions on him itt made because of his death seemed a wholly modern phenomenon. But I apologise if I let my anger get the better of me anon, forgive me senpai.
>>22146845What a CRAZY prediction. How did you even think of that?
>>22146850I forgive you.
>>22144025he is right cockumuncher
>>22144027it was>>22144537dogshit script didn't help.
>>22146860^__^
>>22145352>>22144361plebbit torurists in full force
>>22145105Gnosticism is psued larp.Also, it's not hidden. People are aware of it, people know and don't even bother to laugh as you're below their contempt.
>>22144285/ck/ heretruly an author with patrician tastes>they ate beans and barbecued goat meat wrapped in tortillas and drank black coffee.
>>22145003then why did it let Mccarthy publish it retard?
>>22145533you subhuman troons need to be killed on site. I see a lot of you mccarthy fags have become uppity since zoomer video dropped. Stop overrating you trash pulp faggot.
>>22143710What the hell he was just announced to be working on a movie adaptation of Blood Meridian and now he's dead?
>>22143710>anons can’t even pay their respects and move on but have to bring their petty squabbles and assholish behavior in with them
He wrote 2 masterpieces in Suttree and The Crossing. Fantastic author who is only reinforced by all the 4chan losers being filtered by him.
>>22143802she denied this request by the way (he would return to living like a hermit without a partner)
>>22144285/jp/ here
>>22143710The greatest living American novelist dead :(
>>22146717I've seen several college professor types arguing about this. I think it's either railway tracks or fenceposts. The idea of fencing in the great open spaces meant a lot to Cormac. I think it's sort of a symbol for him of the good and bad of encroaching civilization. He pays particular attention to it in several books. I don't think it matters specifically what process is involved at the end of BM, except that it's something of this nature.
>>22144326I liked the guy who fucked watermelons and killed bats for money in Suttree
>>22146915wtf are you talking about retarded pseud?
>>22144117Well he wasn’t a scientist and he just hung out there to have free coffee, an office and to talk with scientists. It is highly unusual for academic institutions to give someone who is not on their payroll and not a professor, researcher or lecturer an office
>>22146748Jesus tourists getting mad The dude was joking RIP Cormac sorry the goons had to spoil this boards usually better decorum Outer Dark The Road and Blood Meridian left a scar Nuff sed
>>22145193Decimated? You mean 1/10th of the wolves had died?
>>22145233I don't believe you but I do
>>22145578>>22145613Cat and countercat is going to stay with me.
>>22146629>For some reasonIt's because it was just announced he was working on something, dying wasn't his plan either
>>22144117A formal response will come when they have had time to mourn
who?
>>22143889i don't know or care who he isnot important to me.
>>22147064He wrote the screenplay for that one Ridley Scott movie with Brad Pitt in it
>>22145100Why is Henry a bad person?
>>22143889My favorite science fiction author killed himself by putting down painters' clothes in his apartment, writing a note apologizing for the mess, pointing the barrel of one of his lovingly cared-for antique pistols to the side of his head, and pulling the trigger, because his finances were down and his strong libertarian ethics could not tolerate the idea of becoming a burden to the state or anyone else, 20 years before I was born.How odd to obsess over not getting into an author's works "early" enough.
>>22145728Are you retarded? Euros also love him because of being the last guy to write high-brow western(as in the movie genre) fiction. And its not just situated in the days of cowboys and sheriffs, its mostly about modern times. Watch some of the movie adaptations to get a feel. Also he has beautiful prose which is abnormal for a modern author.
>>22147087Oh and for the record, it later turned out his publisher, who had recently died, was very bad at keeping books, and the author was owed considerably more money than he knew was coming. Such is life!
>>22145100>literally the only jew to ever put america before communismreddiiiiiiit
>>22147078>being a manipulative kike powermonger is a GOOD thing, goy!
>>22145374No idea, sorry. BM was my 4th McCarthy novel (I'm approaching the last quarter of The Border Trilogy as we speak) but the first that made me search for related artwork after I finished it. Don't think to anything serious, I was simply curious what illustrations and depictions the work inspired. Let's just say it was time well spent. That's how I found >>22144032 or pic related.
>>22143710Rip
>>22147087>>22147099Who was he? Two posts and not a single mention of a name.
>>22147125
>>22144285/a/ reporting for duty
>>22147130He took a picture before shooting himself? Grim.
>>22147136He was a lifelong collector, it's sad he included that particular passion of his in his exit.
>>22147095>Euros also love him because of being the last guy to write high-brow western(as in the movie genre) fiction.I am Norwegian, and I love him because of the elevated language. English is a great language in this way, you can use the Germanic substrate to be very clear and precise, but you can also use its entire Romance and Greek range too to produce an almost Biblical and mystical feel. I'm sad my own language doesn't work this way.
>>22143710Damn, letely it feels like there's a lot of people dying that had never died before...
>>22144285/x/ here, rip big man
>>22143710RIP. I just finished pic related. Incredible book and writer
>>22147140If he's your favorite, where do I start?
How toxic masculine was Cormac McCarthy? Will now women determine what is socially acceptable to read and everyone will only read YA novels?
>>22146388actually a good ideahe should feel supernatural and uncanny
>>22147152My personal recommended reading order:Little Fuzzy (and optionally its sequels, Fuzzy Sapiens, Fuzzies & Other People)Four-Day PlanetThe Cosmic ComputerSpace Viking (his magnum opus)Federation (short stories collection)Empire (short stories collection)and then anything else in his Terro-human Future History series (Oomphel in the Sky and Omnilingual are great). All these stories take place during different eras of the rise and fall of successive human cultures in space, somewhat similiar to Asimov's Foundation. They each have different styles of protagonists and conflicts (the Fuzzy series are practically YA-tier) but you do get a remarkable sense of his principles and values running throughout the loosely-connected time periods. It's very dry in a way, which I love.
>>22147180Space Viking sounds cool
>>22147183My favorite recurring scenery in his books is many long, spirited discussions of scientific methodology over cigarettes and whiskey highballs. You just don't get that mandatory cocktail-hour lifestyle in science fiction anymore.
RIP king
>>22143710RIP King
>Sticky can't even hit 1000 postsGuess selling out and writing about trannies being good wasn't enough to save him from obscurity
>>22147112yes, unironically even, only cucks will disagree.
>>22147369Has a /lit/ sticky ever hit 1000 posts? They are usually dead by 400-500 posts. This is also the first sticky since a random IJ sticky in 2021.
>>22147396Infinite Jest got a sticky in 2021? Why?
FHope this doesn't herald some trash adaptations by a family trust.
>>22147427Random sticky. Some janny was a fan it seems.
>>22143710I had a dream lat night that my father and I were the characters in the Road and we were the last alive. I have a new found respect for him recently because I looked back on my life and realized how subpar of a son I was.
>>22147448Blood Meridian was already happening>>22147024
>>22143883Which book is this from?
>>22147155>How toxic masculine was Cormac McCarthy?all the way (And That's A Good Thing)
IT IS ONLY EVER IN THE DARK WHERE FORM WRESTLES ITSELF OF AMBIGUITY AND IN THIS DARK HOUR AND UPON THIS DARK ROAD I SLIP INDELIBLE
>>22144285/co/ here, learned of his death in our own sticky. RIP to a great.
>>22147543What the hell, JRSR died too?
>>22147549Yep. June 12.
>>22147557This isn't a jackpot at all...
>>22143715Maybe wait more than 2 minutes?
>>22144326Mind if I save your gif?
>>22143840I mean, the unvaxxed one already died of covid...
>>22147478Not him but this is from the ending of The Crossing. The middle part of the Border Trilogy. Needless to say read them in release order. >>22147008In the words' metaphorical sense. They didn't mean that 10% of the wolves perished due to natural or artificial reasons, more like that their population is the shadow of what it (traditionally) was. Decimated means significantly reduced here.
>>22147569I strongly dislike redefining words simply because people who don't understand their meaning pick up the wrong context cues and then misuse them to the extent that the erroneous usage becomes the norm.It right miffs me, it does.
>>22144326Gene Harrogate, for sure.
>The gypsy smiled and said that as a child he had traveled a good deal in the land of the gavacho. He said he’d followed his father through the streets of western cities and they collected odds of junk from the houses there and sold them. He said that sometimes in trunks and boxes they would come upon old photographs and tintypes. These likenesses had value only to the living who had known them and with the passage of years of such there were none. But his father was a gypsy and had a gypsy mind and he would hang these cracked and fading likenesses by clothespins from the crosswires above the cart. There they remained. No one ever asked about them. No one wished to buy them. After a while the boy took them for a cautionary tale and he would search those sepia faces for some secret thing they might divulge to him from the days of their mortality. The faces became very familiar to him. By their antique clothing they were long dead and he pondered them where they sat posed on porchsteps seated in chairs in a yard. All past and all future and all stillborn dreams cauterized in that brief encapture of light within the camera’s closet. He searched those faces. Looks of vague discontent. Looks of rue. Perhaps some burgeoning bitterness at things in fact not yet come to be which yet were now forever past>The photographs that hung from the wire became for him a form of query to the world. He sensed in them a certain power and he guessed that the gorgios considered them bad luck for they would scarcely look at them but the truth was darker yet as truth is wont to be>What he came to see was that as the kinfolk in their fading stills could have no value save in another’s heart so it was with that heart also in another’s in a terrible and endless attrition and of any other value there was none. Every representation was an idol. Every likeness a heresy. In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased. This was what his father meant to tell him and this was why they were men of the road. This was the why of the yellowing daguerreotypes swinging by their clothespegs from the crosswise of his father’s cart>He said that journeys involving the company of the dead were notorious for their difficulty but that in truth every journey was so accompanied. He said that in his opinion it was imprudent to suppose that the dead have no power to act in the world for their power is great and their influence often most weighty with just those who suspect it least. He said that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is also only the picture of the world in mens hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it. In those faces that shall now be forever nameless among their outworn chattels there is writ a message that can never be spoken because time would always slay the messenger before he could ever arrive
>>22147579You're describing the natural evolution of language, and it's an inevitable process that has always happened and will always happen.
Maybe I'll try to finish Blood Meridian now.
>>22147613No! I don't want that! I want the meanings of words to be immutable and eternal!
RIP corncobwelp time to start working on my blood meridian fanarts again
>>22144285/toy/ reporting in
>SCALPEDftfr tho may his soul rest in peace
I'm just going to leave this here. There's the other video with Lawrence Krauss too but that was mostly just Krauss talkinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUy1Vn2KdI
>>22143710>Got a blackout at the apartments>"Eh, whatevs">Sleep>Wake up 7 hours latter>Power back on>Turn on News>"Cormac McCarthy is dead"I kind of wish the power was still off....
gonna go fuck some watermelons in his memory
>>22144284why didn't he just sell his gun to him
>>22144165Reading his works it’s pretty clear he was always like that
>>22143710good riddance
>>22147726N-noooo he was based and religious like I pretend to be!
>>22144165>>22147726I'd challenge the assertion that he ever explicitly was one, his work examines multiple points of view and the one book (The Sunset Limited) that has a direct confrontation between belief and nonbelief ends with no clear "victor"
>>22147728Hope you bear the brunt of this post.
>>22147739>(The Sunset Limited) that has a direct confrontation between belief and nonbelief ends with no clear "victor"Really? I always reckoned Black just failed and White went on to kill himself
>>22143787this >>22143795
>>22143710ah fuckgoddamn
>>22144002You shut your mouth.
>>22147764A lot of it is up to interpretation, but the book seems to explicitly avoid siding with either character in the endYou technically could read it, if you wanted to, as a kind of vindication of White's viewpoint, but one could just as easily view the conclusion as a mutual loss for both positions - the story ends with arguably the worst representation of either stance: one is left praying desperately to an invisible presence and the other goes off to destroy himself, both are portrayed as rank failuresYet another valid appraisal would be that while Black is (apparently) unable to dissuade White from suicide, his philosophy is ultimately superior because it gives him the strength to continue living, while White's ends in a black hole of despair that culminates in him self-destructing; White's view of life is certainly not presented as pleasant or desirable, it demonstrably leads only to complete death and annihilationIt's not even made totally clear, in the end, whether White actually goes through with his suicide; he only says that he will, but we aren't shown what happens after he leaves the building and Black claims that he didn't actually mean those things, so we don't even definitively know if Black did fail
>>22147751fuck you too. kill yourself
I'm going to read all of his works in chronological order.
>>22143710No one alive can write prose like him. There won't be a writer of his caliber for a lifetime.
>>22147852Sunset Limited is a really good movie btwSometimes Samuel L. Jackson reminds you he's actually capable of good acting
>>22144196You’re either a self-hating white, or have a seething inferiority complex. Both are pathetic.
>>22145956Being afraid of quotation marks is psued shit
>>22147866jackson is like nick cage. talented but he clearly loves making money and fuckin around way more than he cares about being a respected serious actor.
>>22147866Yeah, I enjoyed the film adaptation, I think the casting was on point and I liked the understated but oppressive sound design
>>22143710Rest in peace
and nothing of value was lost!
>>22148009Hope you and your family suffer the same fate
>>22144285/int/ was hereHad fun reading your books in my cunt, chief. RIP
>>22148019kill yourself immediately you counterterrorist wannabe faggot
ESL here. Can someone explain to me what he meant here? Does it mean that you'll have to go through hell to get what you want?
>>22148072It means there's a whole world/journey between your desire for some goal and attaining that goal.
>>22143787not a favorite quote but i absolutely fucking love the judge's first appearance when he accuses the preacher of some heinous shit and all hell breaks loose, only to later say he's never even heard of the guy before and slowly everyone starts laughingit perfectly sets the tone for the book
>>22143710I will avenge him.
>>22143787The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun's coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her delight, all nations of the possible world ordained by God of which she was one among and not separate from. Where she ran the cries of the coyotes clapped shut as if a door had closed upon them and all was fear and marvel. He took up her stiff head out of the leaves and held it or he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. What blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. What we may well believe has power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely if wind can, if rain can. But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot lose it.
>>22144284>>22145221Im not very fond of that particular pic just because the original scene is far creepier and unsettling therefore the meme would be perfect if done correctly. The judge had an umbrella made of bones and skin and he had the retard naked with a damn leash. Just imagine having to deal with that while getting outgunned and losing blood as well. I think the judge was almost naked or with just rags if i remember correctly too.
>>22143710America's last great man of letters moves on. I pray God forgives his being a Freemason. Literary legends don't grow on trees and after Delillo and Pynchon check out it's going to be a wrap for novelists.
>>22145834Can you do that irl? What would be the guano and volcanic dust replacement. Any /k/ommando here?
>>22148072I'm not going to recite the broader context but this is from the abuela's discussion with John Grady. She speaks about how we all get cured from our emotions eventually either by life or (at last) death. How the world ruthlessly separates the truth from our daydreams even if we don't want it. The discussion is at least partly about the (supposed) nature of this world but I always felt it also emphasizes how we always exist / act in context and there's a mutual impact between the two. What none of us can escape is the said judgement of the world: for our wish to became reality ("the thing") it has to pass through it.
>>22148160You won't do anything faggot.
>>22148222This is a great ending to the section. It seems a bit mean to suggest CM didn't make it all up from scratch but the feeling is very similar to the ending of Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers, a poem I'm sure Cormac knew. (Apart from anything, he was friends with Edward Abbey, and Abbey was a big Jeffers fan).HURT HAWKSIThe broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder,The wing trails like a banner in defeat,No more to use the sky forever but live with famineAnd pain a few days: cat nor coyoteWill shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons.He stands under the oak-bush and waitsThe lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedomAnd flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it.He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.The curs of the day come and torment himAt distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head,The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes.The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to thoseThat ask mercy, not often to the arrogant.You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him;Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him;Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.III’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk; but the great redtailHad nothing left but unable miseryFrom the bones too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved.We had fed him for six weeks, I gave him freedom,He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death,Not like a beggar, still eyed with the oldImplacable arrogance. I gave him the lead gift in the twilight. What fell was relaxed,Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but whatSoared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its risingBefore it was quite unsheathed from reality.— Robinson Jeffers
>>22148160He died of natural causes anon
>>22148255You can try to stop him, but you wont.
>>22145798This is exactly the sort of retarded take I expect to be popular on this website. The mysterious unknown is not the same as your tradcath larp dogma..
>corncob is free from meatspace and not bound by space or time>he is watching you masturbate from heaven
>>22143710I didn't even know he was sick.
>>22143787A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
>>22146388>>22146361I disagree, the idea of the judge is that he despite his appearance, he looks like someone who you just cant drink a beers and talk funny shit with (unless you are a kid, i remember he tried to gift candies and the kids got scared). so someone who is a good enough actor to switch between bro and scary cunt.
>>22144285/fit/ here>corncob diesany lifts for this feels?
>>22148253I don't see the similarity apart from the obvious one, but the section right after the Wolf's burial had Billy make a bow and hunt a hawk for food, but then abandon it after he sees no difference in the blood between the dead Hawk and himself.
>>22148255Who is that "Netral Coses" and where do i find the fucker.
>>22147130> an heroHe has to be a good writer by default. I'll give it a shot
>>22143787All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise
What's the best novel to get started on McCarthy's work?
>>22148288
>>22148481Blood Meridian
>>22146185showing that libs are fucking retarded
>>22148019Die of old age?
>>22143767What do you mean by that?
>>22148481Moby Dick
>not even 1000 replies/lit/ is dead.
Why did mostly everyone hate The Counselor. Aside The shitty acting from Cameron Diaz I thought it was a very competent film and accurate depiction of the cartel. It also has some beautiful lines and some philosophical dialogue.Fassenbender getting his wife’s snuff film on DVD was just the chefs kiss. Such a devasting scene.Corncob wrote some violent books. But at least he himself lived a peaceful life
>>22143710RIP Corndog
Rest in peace, Corncobby. You were one of the last good writers left
>>22148481I'd say Suttree is the sweet spot.
This might be the biggest thread in /lit/ history.
>>22148711>Why did mostly everyone hate The CounselorGiven who was involved (everyone, plus Cormac) expectations were sky-high. People wanted a 10/10 (No Country Squared), and then when it was only 7½/10, they treated it like 3/10. I think its reputation will grow with time, if it hasn't already.PRO TIP: If someone sneaks up behind you and puts a bolito over your head, the best thing is to get a pen or key or any small metallic object, and force it between the wire and your neck, just before the motor (i.e. so it's being pulled in towards the motor). Then twist it around so there's basically a loop in the wire, being pulled towards the motor.(This should be possible. In the film, IIRC, Brad Pitt manages to get his fingers under it, but can't stop it or pull it off.) Anyway, the metal object-plus-twist will (hopefully) jam against the side of the motor and just bring the thing to a halt. Presumably the motor will then burn out and/or the battery die; then you're just faced with getting the thing off your neck.
>>22148783Sad if true
>>22145739>Americans are fed up with ideologies/ethics/moralsHaha. No they're not. They're just fed up with their shitty ideas not being the overt zeitgeist but in reality it is because America barely changed. You're a conglomerate of retards who are both too bored and too enthused about some of the dumbest shit as your leaders (capitalists) bleed you dry and give you numnums to pacify you. You lack the ability to see beyond the veil and witness this, and it's by design that you're not meant to. You're left tired and ill, completely fine to turn on the television and consume swill that does nothing for you but enforce the status quo. Your people, if they can even be called that, think that by putting gays and blacks in a television show that it's some sort of Marxism. Same with companies pandering to other groups that aren't you. Your God is money, and you supplicate yourself to it as if you were a hungry calf. Blind and dumb neoliberal retards who think that there are two parties, that you can endlessly argue over and blame, in order to never get to the root of the problem. No, it's not the Jews. Another convenient deflection.
>>22146114Literal brainlet take and written by an American.
>>22148281you can go back anytime faggot.
1001th post…
Too bad he spent his last years writing his worst books
>day old sticky>only 1000 posts/lit/ is truly dead
>>22149092nobody reads books. cry more
>>22149109VNA VELA
1001th post for Homeros the king of literature
>>22149148>>22149092>>22149045>>22148709bait
>>22148711Probably because of Ridley Scott.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi3x6u7JQYY
>>22149151the counter maxed out at 1000, it's no longer counting
i now feel even more obligated to read blood meridian
>>22148253Not a faggot but that made me cry. Fuck.
>>22145636bold of you to assume I'm gonna be a statistic like you
>>22149532Ted K would have torn up that book and thrown it off the side of the mountain
>>22149109from the thumbnail I thought the blunt was a hamock and for a second thought Bart was in Joyce's tower room
>>22143798Ecclesiastes Pilled
>>22149532You fucked a 10 year old?
is there a proper reading order for his books or do I just pick whatever?
RIP I'm fuckin sad.
>>22149578>trying to pay tribute to CormacNow I remember why you can't show your name on this website cause of degenerates like this
>>22149677What did you do to that girl?
I refuse to read the works of living authors (too political), so I can try this man's novels. What should I start with?
1001 my nigguh. RIP.
>>22143710That it lol
Haven't read him yet.I'm too busy with genre fiction.
I'm watching The Counselor right now and it is not possible for a good writer to have written this dogshit. This is proof that Cormac was trash. If I wanted a 10 minute sex scene, I'd watch porn. Cormac was a disgusting, perverted freak, hence his popularity among Americans.
>>22149689I thought the last book had poozed shit in it?
RIP Cormac McCarthy. 100 years from now people who love literature will still be reading you. You will never die.
>>22145138I actually love that
>>22149602>>22149689I'd recommend you start with Blood Meridian. It's difficult but it's his magnum opus. Richard Poe's audiobook is excellent and can help you get into the flow of his prose.Then I'd read the Appalachian trilogy (Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, and Child of God) which happen to be his first three novels. Follow that with Suttree, his most sprawling and personal novel.Then read the rest of his work.
>>22149994it did, it's probably only me thinking it but i would bet money the tranny shit was because of publishers shoehorning that shit nowadays, it's been shown that amazon forces that shit to sell books through them
Is it true his final wish was to be remembered as a woman? I heard in his final year he was transitioning. News of it should come out soon.
>>22144478Wait till you read the Crossing. That book made me want to kill myself. It really dips into some pitch-black valleys of annihilation.
>>22144508What'd you think of the book? I think it's one of his best. It's also the funniest book I've ever read.
>>22144518I've read the whole trilogy and this is correct yeah >>22144669I would say still push through pretty horses though
>>22144608Awful, it reads like YA or fan fiction
>>22143710What book of his should I read first? I’ve been interested in him for a while and I guess there’s no better time to start than the present.
>>22145816I trust James Franco to adapt a McCarthy book into a "film" as far as I can throw the fucking cocksucker, especially after he "adapted" those two Faulkner books. What a shithound. I hate that weird looking freak and his boring hollywood ass.
>>22145831Is Selfie Suicide any good?
>>22149977Read the screenplay. It is much better. Ridley scott fucked up.
>>22143840Oh yes the ripe young age of 89 must have died from the vaccine. Now janny do your job and clean it up
>>22144435What was extreme about what he said? He just made a point saying not everyone was alive for the books he read
>>22150263outer dark
>>22145355Correct. Pynchon was leagues better than Cormac McCarthy.
>>22150421Pynchud is not fit to polish Cormac's boots. Fuck off insecure retard.
>>22150421Lol
>>22144285/qst/ weighing in to give homage to a myth among men.
RIP Cormac senpai
>tfw cormac was a based NEET his entire life and forced his thot wife to live like an asceticHOLY BASED
>>22150574Lmao that’s fucking based
>>22144608Why didn't YOU just write it you retard
why didn't the man kill the judge at the end?
>>22143710>greatest author of the twentieth century dies>only 1000 replies to his sticky/lit/ truly is dead
>>22150568Did you become a comic?
>>22150574kek
>>22146660Not just a twitter screenshot, but from a phone too.
>>22150692You like to think that its possible to know how bad things are. Things are things and the only way to know their badness is not to know the badness attached to things, but the thingness attached to badness. It do be, and bad to be bad, but things don't be bad. That's just your infant son turned inside out with hedging shears. The evil is inside you when you see it.I turn my head and spit dryly.
>>22150184Honestly I wouldn’t be that surprised if he was pro tranny. I mean he was a materialist atheist, there’s no divine masculine or feminine you have to worry about offending and transgressing. He also clearly harbors a lot of white guilt. All that I can accept though as a Christian who atleast is also not ashamed of being white. Why? Because his writing is still genuinely amazing and captivating. And being a former atheist I can understand where he comes from on a lot of stuff. It just is what it is. There are also so many WAYYY more pozzed writers though. Cormac did often show true profoundness in the scenes he wrote
>>22148711>>22149213>Why did mostly everyone hate The Counselor.>I thought it was a very competent film>Probably because of Ridley Scott.Ridley Scott's like this. He's extremely competent at the shooting part and pulling off a big production. Whether it's a Ridley Scott film or some straight to DVDtier trash by Ridley Scott with a few big actors is a solid coinflip.His works aren't masterpieces that deserve to be worshipped but he ping pongs between good and bad so frequently nowadays that you're never sure if you should even bother to watch one of his movies.His modern work's so ropey, sometimes you sit him down and you'll get an Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Prometheus, Black Rain, Matschstick Men or GI Jane tier movie out of him. Other times you'll eke out a Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood, Last Duel, Body of lies, House of Gucci, White squall, The Martian or Alien: Covenant type of movie. There's absolutely no predicting how all in he is on a project or the quality of the script.People expected Prometheus to be terrible, it turned out to be not as bad as you'd think it would but core Alien & "Aliens" fans cried so we got the absolutely insane balls to the wall "fuck you all" movie Covenant that felt hard phoned in trying to accelerate a plotline Alien fans would care about and tonally is at odds with what had come, the movie itself feels like it's cut from three separate movies and only part of his style as a director even barely shines through in the first 30-40%. Everyone expected that he was cashing in on the brand again by returning, only to really cash in hard after the backlash.You look at Gladiator 2 on the docket and you're having a real hard think to yourself. Does he care again? In it for the money like A:C? Dream he couldn't get off the ground? Which actor is he going to put in his next 6 films from this title?Fuck Ridley Scott. He'll steal 2 and a half hours of your life at gunpoint on the promise of something slightly above meh.
>>22150721Are you implying Kingdom of Heaven is bad?
>>22150758There's no implication.
>>22150760Wow.
>>22143710Never heard of him. Any works you'd recommend?
>>22150798Try The Sunstet Limited, it's just a little play you can finish in one sitting.
>>22145560His depictions of characters that have extremely materialist philosophies are more of a critique of them than an endorsement. Alicia is a good example, she's totally fucked up and insane but extremely autistic when it comes to science and math which ultimately destroys her. I think McCarthy is more in a agreement with Chesterton that worshipping science and materialism - rather than believing there are grains of truths in mystical mythologymies - makes you go insane.
>>22150831Shameful phone posterMythologies*
Tried reading The Road, was boring as fuck
>>22143710>My dad started reading No Country, in the evening, and Cormac was dead by morning.So, who should he pick as his next bedtime reading?
>>22143710It was the Wendigoon video that killed him.
The funny part of all this is that dead people can't win the Nobel prize so that one last mad dash to churn out The Passenger and Stella Maris wasn't enough for him to gain the validation he'd so desperately been courting. He tried so hardAnd he got so farBut in the endIt doesn't even maaaatteeeeer~
>>22144469>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?People talk a lot of rubbish. They think (or at least say) that TC is ten times better than the other two. It isn't. The trilogy is pretty homogenous in my opinion. If you find ATPH uninteresting you probably won't like the other two either.>>22144518the 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 themBasically I agree. ATPH = John Grady as a youth, TC = Billy as a youth, then COTP puts them together. So you have to read the first two first, but probably either order is fine.ATPH is set in 1949-50 and TC is set a bit earlier, over a longer period (1938-50?). So it might actually be better to read TC first. I don't think Cormac had the whole trilogy in mind when he wrote ATPH so it wasn't carefully planned out. I read the trilogy in publication order, and it's hard to imagine it with the first two swapped. Overall they're telling similar stories ("young man discovers how tough the world can be") so it probably doesn't matter that much.
>>22144469>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?People talk a lot of rubbish. Overall the trilogy is pretty homogenous. If you find ATPH uninteresting you're unlikely to enjoy the other two.>>22144518>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 themThis, basically. ATPH = John Grady as a youth, TC = Billy as a youth, then COTP puts them together. So you have to read the first two first, but probably either order is fine. In fact, since ATPH is set in 1949-50 and TC a bit earlier (1938-50?) it might actually be better to read TC first. I don't think Cormac had the whole trilogy in mind when he wrote ATPH so it wasn't carefully planned out. I read it in publication order, and it's hard to imagine it with the first two swapped. They're basically variations of the same story ("young man discovers how tough the world can be") so it probably doesn't matter that much.
>>22150568Where is this from
>>22150991He never cared for the Nobel.
>>22143710This guy being one of the best American authors just shows how shitty American (and English-language in general) literature is.
>>22151044tumblr, where else
He closed his eyes. The gray water that dripped from him was rank with caustic. By the side of a dark dream road he’d seen a hawk nailed to a barn door. But what loomed was a flayed man with his brisket tacked open like a cooling beef and his skull peeled, blue and bulbous and palely luminescent, black grots his eyeholes and bloody mouth gaped tonguless.The traveler had seized his fingers in his jaws, but it was not alone this horrorthat he cried. Beyond the flayed man dimly adumbrate another figure paled, for his surgeons move about the world even as you and I.Besides Joyce, the writer with the greatest sense of prosody and musicality. His prose is basically poem.
>>22150568thats mine how did you find it? i've forgot about it all these years>of course the person who made the corncob shrine is also on 4chan
>>22151276>promises to make art from his books>abandons blog after two sketches
>>22143710RIP to that old niggaI still haven't read anything from him
>>22144430Unbelievably good?
>>22151290i forgot right after making it. I made it as a joke to show a friend because we were talking about how king of the hill and cormac mccarthy were like the antithesis to animehe keked and then we immediately forgot about it and moved on with our livesi didn't know that my unfinished corncob shrine is immortalized on the internet foreveri can draw more corncob art though. just for you. :)
>>22151415Are you a comic now?
>>22146097no>>22146105You're retarded
>>22144285/fit/ reporting in
>>22144285/a/ reporting in
>>22150712he has never siad that he was an atheist
>>22151424not yetholy fuck i haven't logged onto tumblr in 8 years. i cant believe it wasn't deletedokay guys who wants to see a corncob anime shrine? i can probably do something with it if there is enough demand>>22150568also why is this black?
>>22150306screenplay is dogshit too
>>22150440>>22150444>calls others insecure>has to respond any negative post of his masteryou are projecting like your tranny author
>>22151486Kill yourself ESL tranny.
Vax stat?
>>22151486>A full day later and he is still assblasted about an author he never read>accuses others of insecurityThe irony. This is the biggest thread in /lit/ history. Bet it makes you really mad lol. Such a pathetic bug.
>>22143710Can't even come up with a memorable death for his own character exert. Pathetic.
>>22151478i'm game, go nuts
>>22151478I use dark mode
He's a big guy 4U
>>22145221I no joke got into Blood Meridian due to a virgin v. chad meme.
>>22151478what does selling friendship mean?
>>22151486Just go back to /tv/ you worthless sack of shitheap. Go there and seethe there. That's all you have been doing all day since yesterday.Imagine being this obsessed with a 90 year old dead boomer you don't even like. This is mental illness. The lengths these insecure chuds will go to valid their dinwittedness.
>>22145221Me too, at least convinced me to read it
>>22151662He never hit 90...
>>22145233I kneel.
>>22151478go on nigga
>>22144039the coens are trash
>>22150574Dis nigga eating beans!
>>22151762Is the beans and tortillas combo really that good?
>>22143710i can't believe ithis last 2 books were schizo
>>22144198Damn nice to find a person who's also been greatly and positively ffected by this passage.
>>22150574Unfathomably based
First Ted, now Cormac? What a week. RIP in peace sweet prince.
>>22144897So most of the anons on this board in a nutshell?
>>22150568>favorite mangaka: cormac mccarthy
>>22144162>>22144056My favourite reading of BM is my own because I have a raspy bass voice which made the whole thing sound as if my old cowboy grandpa was telling the story to meNo I'm not going to prove it either, we all sound different in our heads anyway
>>22151477Well he’s atleast said he’s a materialist and that pretty much implies a non belief in a god (unless you’re REALLY going to argue for a material god (Jesus was a special case obviously)). Anyway, even when Krauss quoted the part in the book about there needing to be an primary mover to set off the chain of events Cormac clearly clarified that it’s a character talking there not him. From what it seems he was most likely an atheist surely you can admit that?
>>22151780>/fit/ reporting inif you've ever eaten beans & tortillas in american (both u.s. & mexican) southwest then you'll knowdefinitely
>>22145127>atwoodugh kill yourself pretentious faggot, was forced to read cats eye in AP english and it was the most insipid and banal trite garbage ive ever read. actually asked the teacher if she ever had read mccarthy and she pretended she never heard of him.
>>22152277Not that anon but frankly I don't think Corncob would appreciate labels of any sort, he's closer in my view to an Emil Cioran, or a Samuel Beckett, or perhaps a Herman Melville (author of his personal favorite book), constantly uncertain and fluctuating in his (admittedly, frequently pessimistic) views as opposed to a dyed-in-the-wool mouthbreathing materialist; I suspect his lack of overt discussion of the subject may have stemmed from his own perpetual uncertainty - a kind of knowing all its own, from an apophatic angle>"I think the questioner wants the truth. The doubter wants to be told there aint no such thing."
>>22151612How did you find this
>>22152473I don’t think he would appreciate it either but still I label things. That is fair I guess uncertainty could really be at the heart of it (though who is ever really certain anyway)
>>22152575He already seemed somewhat uncertain of god in that old Oprah interview, but I haven't watched it in a while, so I may be misremembering
>>22152591Yeah he's definitely uncertain, and it's a running theme in The Passenger where many discussions are about theology and whether there is a God or not. You can tell by Cormac's pessimism and overly materialistic characters that he probably sees the world from their perspective and was definitely not a theist. Through his searching, curiosity of the subject of the nature of reality, stories and language, I believe he had a desire to understand religion or maybe even seek the existence of God. Hope he found Him in his last days. Or at least peace.
>>22146371Read Underworld
>>22144196Atrocious bait
Read The Road in one shot. I'll try blood meridian next. I liked it quite a bit all things considered, I know he made the ending up because he didn't know where it was going, or so he said once, but there's a few ways to interpret it. I really loved the incessant feeling of impending doom and "the road" as both a guide and an obvious danger exposing you and anybody clueless enough to cross on it to endless dangers.
>>22144175based
>>22144834>Onions comandante
RIP king.
>>22152591I know it shouldn’t matter to me but I can’t help but care I guess just cause I feel such a personal connection to his work. I do need to remember the man and work are still in a way separate no matter what. Still I think it’s better to atleast be uncertain. I mean I can’t say for sure I’m right about Christianity but that’s why it’s called faith. And I agree with you >>22152671 a lot about him trying to understand religion and it seems he no doubt respects it to some degree no matter what he has shown to be far more sagacious and open than say clowns like Sam Harris. But perhaps part of that stems from his reserved nature when speaking publicly outside his writings. I will say to clarify on an earlier point though on the man and work being separate I imagine the distance is a bit smaller for his relationship as evidenced by him declining speaking at college because “everything he had to say was there on the page already” (I’m paraphrasing slightly I think). God it still kinda hurts and it feels lame cause I’m a grown man but it’s like, they really just had to kill him. Fuckin shame
Huge F
>>22145514holy fucking based
>>22148281How would you know
>>22146022Try The Master and his Emissary. Even if you don't agree with it, it pokes at an interesting problem in an interesting way.
>>22143710Mr Anglin finally responds.https://dailystormer.in/cormac-mccarthy-finally-dead/
>Cormac refuted through his life and work the pettifogging myth that one cannot be both broad and deep. He read everything, he could sing and play a folk song after a single listen, he loved a well-tailored suit, he designed houses for his friends, he tortured himself with the philosophy of mathematics, and he schooled me in the geometry of the ideal bookshelf. Not sure what to make of the world without him in it.
>>22144117they posted btwhttps://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1668771885796974593
>>22153672Personally my interests really are much more broad than deep, but I think the ideal writer should be something of a Renaissance man. Good to know McCarthy could pull it off.
>>22143710This sticky should stay up at least 1 month.
>>22144182rip cormac
which one should I read tonight?
Y'know, I always figured Cormac McCarthy would pull a Hemingway and die by eating his gun. Glad he wasn't that depressed.
>>22153951He gave a phone interview in 1986 saying that he was suicidal and that all art stems from tragedy.Having a Son late in life really saved him. You can feel that love emanating from The Road.
>>22153940I’m re-reading No Country for Old Men and loving it. Easy one to jump into.
>>22153994Never saw that interview before anon. Still not sure if it’s real but thanks for the heads up!
In McCarthy's honor I finished the second half of The Passenger. The last few pages were breathtakingly beautiful.
>>22144320Unforgiven isn't the most action-packed Western either.
>>22143710rip in peace lil nig
>>22144326Harrogate. Reminds me of a friend I had.
>>22154023http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/2013/09/early-mccarthy-interview.html?m=1
>>22154025Yes, I agree. That's some of his best writing. I've also gone to reread the oil platform section several times. There's just something about it. The decision to go there despite how ominous it is, the isolation that is lonesome and creepy but also comfy, and then the company of men who finally arrive and how their voices in the hallway were a "balm" to him.
>>22153650Anglin is actually an amazing writer; he conveys his ideas far more clearly than McCarthy does, and is thus the superior writer
>>22153940I'm a Suttree man myself
>>22154219Chud opinion
>>22143710WHo?
>>22143710test
Rest In Peace. I read BM just before it became trendy and now all of his work is about to become trendy right as I was ready to read No Country. Oh well.
>>22154541Like he wasn't already trendy? he's not some underground hidden author exactly
>3 days old thread about the most famous author dying>Not even more than 1k repliesLol is 4chan dead now or what?
>>22154633We just don't care about Hollywood sell-out genre fiction authors
>>22154633Its way past 1000, the counter stopped counting after that a couple days ago
>>22154541Jej, this beta bitch cares what normies think about one of the most famous recently living American authors.
>>22151524says tranny lover subhuman.>>22151550>thinks I am same personywnbaw fag seether.This is also only thread were dead author is called a troon, bet it makes you seethe huh.>>22151662>thinks I am from /tv/ for some reason>let people enjoy thingsback to plebbit mccarthy cucks.
>>22152277I mean that interview seemed like Mccarthy was trying to dodge Krauss' questions regarding faith. If he wanted t he could come out and say that he was an atheist. He seemed to be a cultural christian who could not fully decide whether he believed or not. He did critisice one atheist in 90s and told him that he pitied him for not having any mysticism.
>>22144285/sp/
>>22154666Kill yourself constantly assblasted tranny.
>>22144285/qa/ here
>>22154682Yeah again I can see all that. I feel it’s silly for me to care, and it is, but whatever. Him atleast being open to uncertainty is respectable and he’s certainly culturally Christian given the plain facts of his upbringing and also in his allusions and other references In his fiction
>>22143710Rip to a real one
>>22154633Newfag nigger
>>22151646Prostitution
>>22154633it's cuz gay jannies are deleting all the posts
>>22155049They are not deleting posts newfag. An active thread can only hold 1000 posts. Go to warosu if you want to see all of it.
>>22155085Anon...
>>22155085They are: look at all the early posts replying to deleted posts. One of mine was (a generic RIP message).
>>22155129The thread doesn't hold more than 1000 replies. As more replies are added, the replies above get bumped off.
>>22143710FThanks for the book recommendations /lit/. I'll make sure to buy one of his books now.
>>22143710I've only ever read Blood Meridian. Should I pick up his other books?
>>22155606Yeah read Suttree, The Road and Child of God.
>>22155606Outer Dark
>meanwhile in heaven>an angel floats towards cormac with prayers from earth in his armsangel: hey here's more prayers from earth. well now at least you wont get a bunch of books in the mail asking you to autograph them>cormac sifts through all the prayers to him in no time, because time doesnt exist in heaven. he is totally free from the meatspace and bounds of time>one of the prayers is from that one fan who kept sending him letters about random shitcormac: goddammit not this fucker again
>>22155813>goddammitthen immediately the gates of hell open up and mccarthy is forced out of paradise
https://youtu.be/58DrK4JD6xQ?t=65basically Glanton's death
Caught this at the bottom of page 1, mods must have JUST unstickied it.RIP in peace sweet thread.
This is goodbye, thread.But this is not goodbye for me and McCarthy.
Anons, it has been an honor to mourn with you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USR7J6GmleU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xUl_VRCmM
bye bye cormiemods might not care anymore but goodnight sweet king ; ;
Goodnight, beloved entertainer
>>22154785>no ukeep seething niggerlover troon.
>They is four things that can destroy the earth, he said. Women, whiskey, money, and niggers.>If we don't kill every nigger here we need to be whipped and sent home>Hack away you mean red nigger>Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consentThanks for Blood Meridian, Cormac.
>>22157028Lmao. You have been sore in the ass for 4 days because someone told you off. How much of a dumb manchild are you exactly? Mentally ill faggot. No well adjusted person wastes so much energy on something they don't even like lol.
One last waltz for this thread. >One spring morning timing the lean near-liquid progress of a horse on a track, the dust exploding, the rapid hasping of his hocks, coming up the straight foreshortened and awobble and passing elongate and birdlike with harsh breath and slatted brisket heaving and the muscles sliding and bunching in clocklike flexion under the wet black hide and a gout of foam hung from the long jaw and then gone in a muted hoofclatter, the aging magistrate snapped his thumb from the keep of the stopwatch he held and palmed it into his waistcoat pocket and looking at nothing, nor child nor horse, said anent that simple comparison of rotary motions and in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail.>He meant a thing to be remembered, but the young apostate by the rail at his elbow had already begun to sicken at the slow seeping of life. He could see the shape of the skull through the old man’s flesh. Hear sand in the glass. Lives running out like something foul, night-soil from a cesspipe, a measured dripping in the dark. The clock has run, the horse has run, and which has measured which?>He moved along the hall toward the dining room. Paint on these old paneled doors crazed and yellowed like old porcelain. Something more than time has passed here. In this banquet hall. Scene of old heraldic feasts. Suttree in silent recognition of the somewhat illustrious dead. Large companies seated. A fat marcassin to adorn the board. The male bonecoupling rearing white and steaming up from the broken meat. Eyes watch. A malediction for those belated on the road and now commence. Mad trenchermen in armed sortees above the platters, the clang of steel, the stained and dripping chops, the eyes sidling. Yard dogs and starving palliards contest the scraps among the straw. There is nothing laid to table save meat and water. There is no sound of human speech. Beyond the muted clamor at the board there is a faint echo of another chase. Far hue and cry and distant horns and hounds in pain with eagerness. The master of the table has looked up. Down murrey fields another hunt has cried the stag. A shield crashes to the floor and three white birds ascend to the rafters and roost uncertainly. The master wipes his fingers in his hair and his rising says that the feast is done. Outside darkness has begun and the hounds’ voices are chimes in the distance that toll seven and cease. They wait for the waterbearer to come but he does not come, and does not come.>Suttree went out through the kitchen and through the ruined garden to the old road. Reprobate scion of doomed Saxon clans, out of a rainy day dream surmised. Old paint on an old sign said dimly to keep out. Someone must have turned it around because it posted the outer world. He went on anyway. He said that he was only passing through.
>>22157083There will be future writers inspired by Cormac, but there never will be this writing style again. One of the most unique and recognizable styles in all the history of English Prose.
>>22157095I'm an olster and was exposed to Blood Meridian in college, before All The Pretty Horses was released and he broke out. It had sold some 10k copies at the time, I think. I was just put on the floor by it. I pushed it everyone I knew and those that tried it all had the same reaction. And not so much by the moral shock (gen-x, who cares) but I don't know, lyricism, flow, cadence, mothra hypnosis what do you want to call it. I don't even know what axis I'm measuring him on. Proust hit me hard, but did so by playing on what is familiar - young love - but with McCarthy it's as alien as it is intimate, a thing you didn't know you knew until it was said just that way. Mysticism. I very much enjoyed his article on the unconscious anon posted upstream.
>>22157188Great experience anon. Yeah, I love the same in McCarthy. The absolutely alien yet powerful and pleasant tone. As if he is pulling out words from an area that is only felt in dreams. Sure we can do an analysis of its grammar or diction or root of the words, but writing is like a magic trick and he was one of its greatest conjurers.
RIP. Enjoyed many of his works. Suttree particularly stuck with me. Read it at the right time in my life. Never felt that connected to a book.
>>22157304Yeah, Suttree is my favourite of his that I've read.His work really lends itself to audiobook form. You get the sense that McCarthy was speaking every section out loud as he wrote to make sure it would sound right if it was an oral reading. A lot of other authors works suffer when you read them out loud but not his.
>>22157338That's an interesting observation. Never thought about it since I religiously stick to traditional reading. I like chewing on books, often marking them up at my own pace and going back. Audiobooks don't let me do that easily.
>>22157356I get that. I read on paper a lot but I also have a lot of downtime when I'm working where I have the opportunity to listen to something, be it audiobooks or music or etc. It's hard finding good authors whose works translate well into audio form but McCarthy is one of them.
>>22157400I think relistening to Corncob favorites on my 15 hr north/south drives is the right idea. Certain topics and authors fit the road well. Thanks.
Brainlet here, how accessible to the low IQ is his writing?
>>22157546Horseshoe. Low IQ can just let the words carry him along. Midwit has to look everything up. Genius just knows everything as he writes it.
>>22143710Posting ITT before it’s gone
In four days riding he crossed the pecos atIraan texas and rode up Out of the river breaks Where the pumpjacks In the yates field ranged Against the skyline rose And dipped Like mechanical birds. Like large primitive birds Welded up out of iron By hearsay, In a land perhaps where Such birds once had been.The desert he rode was red and red The dust he raised,The small dust that powdered the legsOf the horse he rode,The horse he led.In the evening a wind came upAnd reddened all the sky before him.There were few cattle in that countryBecause it was barren country indeed,Yet he came at evening uponA solitary bull rolling in the dustAgainst the bloodred sunsetLike an animal in sacrificial torment.The bloodred dust blew down Out of the sun. He touched the horse with his heels And rode on. He rode with the sun coppering his face And the red wind blowing out of the west Across the evening land And the small desert birds flew chittering Among the dry bracken And horse and rider and horse Passed on and their long shadows passed In tandem like the shadow of a single being. Passed and paled into the darkening land, The world to come
>>22157746Goodnight and Goodbye, Pale Rider