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[proximoception]

Reading as much McCarthy as I've been is a mixed experience. There's a tinge of the Flannery problem, where the better you understand him the less you want to - I think part of the appeal of The Road is that he's created a world where you and he are sure you agree for once - a problem made simultaneously easier and harder to take by his own

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[grashupfer]

You should pursue this further. How much of this problem can be explained by the reality that there's no interior in McCarthy? I was trying to think up a way that all of the similes could stand in for interiors, but the similes more like expand the world of the novels rather than focus the thought.

[proximoception]

He treats the interior like he treats women - some disturbing but indispensable mystery rippling into and out of a world of otherwise hard facts and direct motivations.

[grashupfer]

Well said.