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Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 by serf on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:31PM (#36316674)
>I got the impression that cormac was a thoroughly disturbed individual with a macabre fascination with the most fucked up 0.00001% of humanity.

you should separate yourself from that notion.

it's true that authors can be damaged individuals with little personal hope, but some of the most macabre things ever written have been conjured by perfectly normal/well-functioning/happy individuals who enjoy fairly well-balanced lives -- it's simply not a good indicator of the person behind the pen.

as for the grammatic non-sense (to which I agree can be exactly that, non-sense) I always read it as if it were sort of styled similarly to the concept of 'beat poetry'. Grammar and syntax goes out the door for prose/beauty/imagery and style.

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Re:Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 by DontchaKnowit on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @09:15AM (#36325429)
100% agree about his prose being basically beat poetry. I think that was why I didnt like it. I hate spoken word poetry 90% of the time. I can see the appeal, certainly, but it does really feel middle school edgelord-ish to me.
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