This channel is just so good. It’s taken a bit to grow on me, but now I click every time I see anything about McCarthy.

Imagine a potluck film with all of these books combined. Like one character from each book.

In No Country there's that one conversation between sheriff Bell and the other sheriff I think about a newspaper article one of them had read about someone escaping from a house naked except wearing a dog collar.

I am so thankful I came across this channel.

Ian, where can we read some of your fiction?

“What, are you going to give it to your book club” :,D

Cormac McCarthy is truly a connoisseur of both squalor and scatology. I will never swim in the Tennessee River.

Sick content. And shirt...

I think writers always feel the need to have extreme content in their books to keep it spicy even if it is only implied, but who knows Cormac may have also lived that Brokeback Mountain (tm) lifestyle for a while who knows

Yes, at least the Counsellor is pretty normal……

Ah immortal technique fan?

Speaking of incest, what about Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury?

I don’t have a sister, so less uncomfortable for me to read.

It's probably the case that civilization is not possible without a taboo against incest. One of the things that civilization does is to check the authority of the father.

FYI reference is not required in fictions

Cormac mccarthys eraser head 😂

I had a suspicion I had inspired this, lol. I find it a macabre interest, because you really want to sort of understand "Alright, but why tho" interest, because so much of the taboo between Alicia and Bobby arises from such an irrational and primal thing, contradicting the seemingly infallible and closed off wall that is Alicia. That immaturity, that development of our sexuality and how that evolves for us, how awkward it is, how much it affects our psyche. I know I do much of the same, and it's weird how much it drags you into it. And I'm just going to say it: the horn. McCarthy is a guy, there's hot women, and the taboo kind of makes these things more easy to raise conflict and mixed emotions and all of that sultry passionate things, especially with how weird and unexplored the sexual personae is. It makes things more weird, like some Murakami nightmare, and you get it all dragged to the forefront to analyze and discuss and make you feel uncomfortable. Shock for shock's sake is something that should be accepted more often, especially when literary sadism is a field of literature.

RIP

When you mentioned the other day that McCarthy was a conservative Republican(I think that was you), I was like, 🤩 🎉💃🫶! I did not know that about him. I have so much yet to learn. Are there any good books written about him, Ian?