Claire | September 4, 2010
“Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow [...]
Claire | August 19, 2010
“They were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand” -All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Claire | August 19, 2010
To categorize Cormac MCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses as primarily a “literary” novel seems to me to be doing it a disservice, because what it really is, and what it functions best as, is a Western with a literary bite. All the trademarks of the traditional Western novel are here (and beautifully so) – the [...]
