The Road

[ambient1]

I've been re-reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A good book for gray rainy days. I particularly liked this passage:

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The

Comments

[dawaioser]

Gorgeous writing, especially the trout description.

[ambient1]

The characters move through a dead burnt landscape for the entire book, making the image of the brook trout especially powerful.

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