Goodbye Bluefin
This is the last paragraph in the book. Kinda cheap, if you ask me. I was willing to call Blood Meridian a work of genius, but The Road mostly just bothered me.
“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patters that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
— The Road, The Cormac McCarthy
I’ve been asking friends if this book is a “must-read” but haven’t recieved a firm answer yet. Thankfully, this boring ass quote has answered my question adaqately.
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rapvsweden reblogged this from towerofsleep and added:
Disagree, The Road > Blood Meridian. Fuck the last paragraph, it’s a must-read.
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blownspeakers reblogged this from jordanhudson and added:
it’s only important bit.
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jordanhudson reblogged this from cameronr and added:
I don’t really like to speak in terms of “must-reads”,...I love Cormac McCarthy. I held...
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ihavegoodtaste reblogged this from cameronr and added:
Dude this person had the choice of nuclear winter, dead babies, and man eating nomads and chose this quote? Nuh uh....
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towerofsleep reblogged this from cameronr and added:
This is the last paragraph in the book. Kinda cheap, if you ask me. I was willing to call Blood Meridian a work of...
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cameronr reblogged this from gnerdy and added:
I’ve been asking friends if this book is...“must-read” but haven’t recieved a firm answer...
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