Blood Meridian
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Has your account been hacked by catalog?
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Other than the burning tree scene mentioned on the previous page, The Judge documenting things in his notebook then destroying them seems to have been the image that's most stuck with me. That's usually the first thing I think of when the book's brought up, him sat there sketching then crushing items in his hand and chucking them on the fire.
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Im sure you’ve all seen this https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2...ionship-with-16-year-old-while-42-and-married
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Yeah, not a good look. The whole 'discourse' around it's tedious though. People need to accept he was a creep and either continue to read him or don't.
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Someone's interviewed the journalist behind the Vanity Fair piece and it really sounds like something happened between him and McCarthy's "muse" while writing the story.
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In the piece you say you’ve spent thousands of hours with Augusta Britt. What has that looked like over the past year and a half? Multiple visits to the Southwest?
Tens of thousands of hours may be more accurate. It looked, and felt, and was, idyllic. I lived for 9 months in Tucson. We shot guns, we took care of her horses, we rooted against the Chiefs. We did Zyn and smoked Camel Wide blues and contemplated cacti. I read Moby Dick and drank two bottles of Greek red wine a night, most of which ran down my shirt as Augusta cracked one-liners and prepared us some of McCarthy’s favorite dishes. As is the Southwestern custom, she bought me my first pair of cowboy boots, which I had surgically attached to my feet this summer.
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I’ve profiled people who had a huge impact on me. You fall for them a little bit. That’s part of the point! Did you fall for Augusta?
Everyone falls for Augusta.
He Bungled the Literary Scoop of the Year. Now He’s Ready to Explain Himself.
An interview with the Vanity Fair writer whose astounding revelations about Cormac McCarthy went viral for all the wrong reasons.
In the piece you say you’ve spent thousands of hours with Augusta Britt. What has that looked like over the past year and a half? Multiple visits to the Southwest?
Tens of thousands of hours may be more accurate. It looked, and felt, and was, idyllic. I lived for 9 months in Tucson. We shot guns, we took care of her horses, we rooted against the Chiefs. We did Zyn and smoked Camel Wide blues and contemplated cacti. I read Moby Dick and drank two bottles of Greek red wine a night, most of which ran down my shirt as Augusta cracked one-liners and prepared us some of McCarthy’s favorite dishes. As is the Southwestern custom, she bought me my first pair of cowboy boots, which I had surgically attached to my feet this summer.
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I’ve profiled people who had a huge impact on me. You fall for them a little bit. That’s part of the point! Did you fall for Augusta?
Everyone falls for Augusta.
vershy versh
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vershy versh
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Some interesting stuff here on McCarthy's use of of Beowulf, From Ritual to Romance and Foucault in Suttree and Blood Meridian. It's funny to read this after the claim from Augusta via the Vanity Fair writer that he had "zero interest" in Foucault as the article references McCarthy's own notes...
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From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy
One thing we learn from a study of influence is that critics do not approach reading in the same way that an artist does, or at least not in the way the artist Cormac McCarthy does. For instance, R…
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