Reddit user NoxZ recently posted: “There’s a lot to unpack in The Passenger and far smarter people than me will take a long time to do that. I’m just thankful it’s here at all. I was beginning to lose hope.”

Is there anything more distinctly American than MacGyvering your own gunpowder out of piss and bat shit to kill a bunch of Native Americans?

“Those who survived would often remember these horrors with a certain aesthetic to them. In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry a thousand years. Like an immense bladder, they would say. Like some sea thing. Wobbling slightly on the near horizon. Then the unspeakable noise. They saw birds in the dawn sky ignite and explode soundlessly and fall in long arcs earthward like burning party favors.”

WOW! This is a killer essay/review of Cormac McCarthy....includes some spoilers...

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

https://lithub.com/on-war-fatherhood-and-the-half-life-of-cormac-mccarthys-literary-fission/

#books #novels #literature #McCarthy #ThePassenger