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[jerk]

http://www.embrocationmagazine.com/y...ot-an-obituary

thanks for reading.

c

[Chance Legstrong]

yup...

[Archibald]

You are the supreme ruler and we are your unworthy subjects. You're God's Illuminati!

[MaestroXC]

Thanks, Craig.

"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

[Archibald]

Thanks, Craig.

"The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. He loves games? Let him play for stakes."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Fucking Cormac McCarthy. That dude can make me cry & I don't cry.

[davids]

Fucking Cormac McCarthy. That dude can make me cry & I don't cry.

The jerk writes a different kind of prose but... yeah. That moved me.

I'd like to think that by making me feel a little of his pain, he was able to lessen his.

[Archibald]

The jerk writes a different kind of prose but... yeah. That moved me.

I'd like to think that by making me feel a little of his pain, he was able to lessen his.

I don't want to hijack Craig's...hell, I don't even know what to call it, poetry? But yeah, CM is the man when he's not being too eccentrically detached. Loved All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, and Cities of the Plain (which will crush you). Blood Meridian was awesome as is The Road. On the other hand, I couldn't force myself to get through Suttree.

All pale to Craig, of course.

[goldyjackson]

You, my friend, seem to be dealing with the same kind of existential crises all thinking and feeling creatures go through at some point. I'm offering no help, I know. It's funny, I was just thinking about Blood Meridian as I read your post, before I read the above response.

My wife always says she wants to go back to a time when all you do is plow your field and try to make enough life to survive. I tell her she would hate it. She tells me that at least we wouldn't walk around always trying to find meaning in OUR FREE TIME. Too much free time is the problem, I think.

This might be a drift, but it's relevant. I just read "the Good Soldiers" by David Finkel. It haunted me after I finished it. He doesn't judge. He doesn't offer "meaning." He just tells the story of a few people who wander around Eastern Baghdad for 15 months trying not to get blown up_at any moment.

[goldyjackson]

I don't want to hijack Craig's...hell, I don't even know what to call it, poetry? But yeah, CM is the man when he's not being too eccentrically detached. Loved All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, and Cities of the Plain (which will crush you). Blood Meridian was awesome as is The Road. On the other hand, I couldn't force myself to get through Suttree.

All pale to Craig, of course.

Blood Meridian is just about the best book I've ever read. I, too, couldn't get through Suttree.

Have you heard of "the War of the End of the World" by Mario Vargas Llosa? It's up there with Blood Meridian.

[steve garro]

Fucking Cormac McCarthy. That dude can make me cry & I don't cry.

ditto. i've been through "Blood Meridian" 5-6 times.........every few years i get new insight i hadn't lived long enough to appreciate yet. i liked "Suttree" hell, i likes them all. i would highly suggest "Gods go Begging" by A. Vea..........