Posted by fayeroe on July 25, 2010, at 12:56:10 [reposted on July 26, 2010, at 2:50:18 | original URL]
In reply to Re: feeling equal )fayeroe » fayeroe, posted by sigismund on July 25, 2010, at 0:39:08
> >We've been discussing the new law that Arizona just passed that pertains to illegal immigration. Check it out.
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> I've been reading Cormac McCarthy, particularly The Crossing, but also All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian. It's not the first sentence, but almost
> 'The new country was rich and wild. You could ride clear to Mexico and not strike a crossfence.'
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> Well, the American who organised the Sydney Writers Festival this year was saying that CMcC got the idea for The Road by looking out of his window in El Paso. He said 'I don't know if you know El Paso, but if you do that may make sense'.Yes, I can see where he would get that idea in El Paso. Sadly El Paso has now been included in the drug business that thrives just south of the border. I was at the World National Finals Rodeo several years ago and a Navajo cowboy and I decided to cross the bridge and look around. We had gotten about one block into Juarez and looked at one another and turned back.
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> He has a wonderful sense of if not nostalgia then regret for ruined landscape.No one can describe the landscape better than CMcC. (sounds like a hip-hop name) Thomas McGuane comes close though.
The first book that I read of CMcC was "All the Pretty Horses". My daughters and I passed it back and forth and I can say that it is one of our all time favorites. I read "The Crossing" next and haven't seen a copy of "The Blood Meridian". I haven't seen "The Road" either. I'll try Amazon.
Did you know he now lives in Santa Fe and within the past 18 months or so, gave his first interview in 20 years?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html
He also did a "sit-down" with Oprah but I'm not very interested in Oprah and I haven't seen that show.
I think you'll find the article very interesting. Now I'm all McCarthyed up and will have to check out Amazon today. I have my copy of "All the Pretty Horses" here and it is one of those books that I can't part with. My dentist reads a book and gives it away. However, he has my copy of "Pigs in Heaven" and I've been trying to get it back from him for two years. Barbara Kingsolver wrote it. If you haven't read her books, do so. She is good.
It is supposed to feel like 101 here today. A friend came yesterday and we worked outside and we got too hot. The remainder of the chores will wait, maybe til November. :-)
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