Cormac McCarthy has died

[j.p.s]

I haven't read any of his work yet, but I should probably get around to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy

[Aleron Ives]

prepare yourself for bold artistic statements delivered without punctuation that makes it really difficult to understand whos talking when because real men dont use commas apostrophes or quotation marks.

[tomsem]

I have loved the books of his that I've read, and looking forward to reading more of them.

[pickyaxe]

I'm sorry about his death.

I wasn't a fan of the one book of his that I've read, Blood Meridian. That's actually quite an understatement, but I don't think this is the right thread for this kind of criticism.

[Canuck_in_Japan]

I had no idea he was so old! I did enjoy The Road (as much as something like that can be enjoyed).

[Dr. Drib]

A literary genius of the first rank. Brilliant in his use of unmediated dialogue, similar to José Saramago, William Gaddis, and William Faulkner. He elevated the human condition by his sophisticated use of language to explore possibilities inherent in the best of humankind. I admired his work very much.

[tomsem]

I found this very interesting:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ed-in-science/

Cormac McCarthy's Work Is Rooted in Science

In the many tributes to his lyrical and philosophical gifts that have been published over the past week, what’s most remarkable about the quotes from McCarthy’s novels they have included is just how many other passages could have been chosen. However perfect the lines one picks, strong rivals abound on every page. Nearly all the trees are tall.

Where did these astonishing powers come from? A partial answer is that McCarthy spent much of his last three decades at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, the research center devoted to the study of complex systems and big questions. There, he conversed with and befriended an eclectic group of physicists, mathematicians, biologists, archaeologists and other scientists who, whatever their special training, all shared a disregard for the rigid borders of conventional academia. McCarthy, who wrote several novels on-site, flourished in this atmosphere. He even wrote the institute’s operating principles, a sort of polymath’s manifesto. “We are absolutely relentless at hammering down the boundaries created by academic disciplines and by institutional structures,” one sentence reads.

[Dr. Drib]

^

Thank you for that link.

I appreciate it.