Cormac McCarthy - /lit/ (#24536085) [Archived: 302 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/10/2025, 3:57:12 AM No.24536085
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Is he the best author of our time?
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:02:42 AM No.24536092
>>24536085 (OP)
Not anymore
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:42:18 PM No.24537310
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Why is he so brutal?
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:44:17 PM No.24537312
He dead
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 4:56:20 PM No.24537333
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>>24536085 (OP)
No. He is what happens when you don't read at all and have sure as shit never read Strunk and White. McCarthy is the banana-taped-to-the-wall version of an author. Retardation propped up by snobby intellectuals who think they are cultured for enjoying word vomit by some backwoods inbred.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:00:27 PM No.24537340
>>24537333
You need to sleep beneath the stars and try again.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:03:08 PM No.24537345
>>24536085 (OP)
Almost, if only his final works had been sincere conjunctions of him at his best, which is when he writes like a river flows, with allowance for humour and brevity, with steps away from his old testemonic graveyard tones, like Suttree, I know he had another book like that in him. But he often wrote, and this is obvious with age, with great constraint, a kind of insecurity, that held him back from honesty of self.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:13:09 PM No.24537361
>>24536085 (OP)
suttree is the greatest novel of the 20th century
everything else he wrote is anywhere from pretty decent to outright bad
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:16:33 PM No.24537368
>>24537333
>McCarthy is the banana-taped-to-the-wall version of an author
Jesus christ. Commas aren't that important. I can think of several authors more deserving of banana-taped-to-wall shame.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:17:26 PM No.24537372
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>>24537345
See. This is what I'm talking about. Snobby intellectuals tricked the common retard into believing McCarthy's books are anything but the word vomit of a simple minded author who clearly shows he doesn't read or understand the written language. You guys are praising the artwork of Koko the gorilla and comparing it to actual literature.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:20:37 PM No.24537377
>>24537368
Your lack of understanding grammar is why you only mention commas and not the dozens of other mistakes he makes that go away after you start reading more books. His books are proof that he doesn't understand the written language. You can't even argue that he does understand and chooses not to write correctly because he never has.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:24:43 PM No.24537383
Three great novels, yes.
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:49:23 PM No.24537433
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He's the greatest American author of the metamodern era, sure. Blood Meridian is not the Great American Novel we thought we'd get, but certainly the one we deserved. Woe unto DeLillo.

>>24537333
lmaoing my ass off at the subliterate retard

Anyway, anyone have that image explaining the Catholicism of Blood Meridian? It was a screengrab of a forum comment, a dude explaining how McCarthy was rationalizing the Catholic concept of the Problem of Evil. Best analysis of the novel ever.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:53:37 PM No.24537439
I read Blood Meridian and I really don't get it. Emperor's clothes situation if you ask me. It's not interesting nor does it effect emotion. The judge is the only interesting thing in the book and his "great dialogue" is mostly nonsensical claptrap that sounds deep and mysterious but really doesn't mean anything.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:57:44 PM No.24537445
He was a priveiliged yankee irish catholic who LARPed as a southern hillbilly and who never actually experienced real strife or violence in his life
pretty pathetic actually
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 5:58:55 PM No.24537447
Define ‘our time’.
Post WWII, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
21st century? Robinson, Ferrante, Mantel and even Roth have more title, all of Cormac’s good stuff was done before.
If you mean American in the second half of the 20th century, yeah he’s up there
Anonymous
7/10/2025, 6:02:13 PM No.24537450
>>24536085 (OP)
He's pretty based. He breaks pretty much every grammar and punctuation rule and is still a critically acclaimed author with multiple film adaptations. His style shits on MFAfags and that's great imo.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:38:58 PM No.24537656
>>24537439
Ain't evr seen a post this bad, says I
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:45:59 PM No.24537671
If you'd asked 10 years ago I'd have said yes but now Blood Meridian is popular with zoomers on tiktok, the Judge treated like a creepypasta monster, so I have to dislike it now.
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Anonymous
7/10/2025, 7:48:35 PM No.24537680
>>24537445
Who asked you about that? You lot are neurotic.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:35:28 AM No.24539151
>>24537433
Bump for the Catholic thing
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:41:34 AM No.24539167
>>24537450
i guess that is pretty based actually
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:07:09 AM No.24539252
>>24537372
>>24537377
You're so insecure holy shit lol. You don't understand a thing about him, you can't even read his writing without having to reread the sentences 3 times, but it's the author who is simple minded? Kek. You're retarded anon, like genuinely, and there are thousands of things too smart for you. Stop coping by putting them down.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:10:46 AM No.24539266
>>24536085 (OP)
Even if he was, he would still be immensely overrated due to plebbitors like you constantly fellating his corpse.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:17:03 AM No.24539283
>>24537445
TRVTHNVKE
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 5:18:11 AM No.24539288
>>24537671
Everyone talks about death of the author, never death of the character.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 4:46:25 PM No.24540452
>>24539266
Sorry. You can go to one of the 15 ASOIAF threads on the board rn. Seems more your speed.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:24:37 PM No.24541109
>>24537445
This may be true but he's still a good writer
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 9:34:25 PM No.24541141
>>24539266
he is not a pledittor favorite anymore cuz of being a pedo.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:10:17 PM No.24541265
>>24537372
>>24537377
Contrarian pseud. You should be shot.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:51:45 PM No.24541354
Blood Meridian is a great litmus test for exposing pseuds.

It is remarkably easy to clock the people who can't read beyond the basic "plot, characters, setting" paradigm. Usually this manifests in a fixation on the judge, or some bemoaning about how the "plot" isn't compelling. But if you press them on even the surface-level analysis surrounding the book, they implode because their brains can't navigate the idea of a book trying to do more than "just tell a story".

The reality is that BM should be criticized for how obviously McCarthy is trying to graft this book onto the lineage of literary history, mirroring the cadence of the King James Bible with the polysyndeton and the archaic vocabulary. The references to Paradise Lost through the Judge, the literal burning bush the kid witnesses, the Mennonite's similarities with Elijah from Moby Dick, etc etc etc.

At some point you have to ask how this Faulkner imitator got it into his head that he could get away with this. And the answer is because people are stupid and attracted to sensational violence: all they see is "da most violent book in da world" and the big grinning judge. So when people dig further and notice what's beyond the surface, they laud it as extraordinary.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 10:59:54 PM No.24541376
>>24541354
It's quite exasperating that you criticized people for surface level faggotry while showcasing similar levels of simple mindedness on your end too. Well done.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:01:10 PM No.24541382
>>24541354
>The references to Paradise Lost through the Judge, the literal burning bush the kid witnesses, the Mennonite's similarities with Elijah from Moby Dick, etc etc etc.
Congratulations on reading the first high school paper that pops up when you google BM snd MD together. You're even worse than the pseuds because you're even less intelligent than them.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:01:14 PM No.24541384
>>24537656
>no argument
unsurprising
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:03:30 PM No.24541387
>>24541376

>actshually you're the simple minded one

Please go back to posting your judge holden pencil sketches on reddit. I'm sure your new one will get more upvotes.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:13:06 PM No.24541406
>>24541382

Please demonstrate your superior analysis on this book.

(I know you are incapable, by the way. The vanity in your response screams of a person who wants to be right, but is unable to articulate a response beyond the written equivalent of flailing your arms. Please keep dilating.)
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:15:26 PM No.24541417
>>24541387
You are. Your criticism reads like some high schooler trying to sound smart.

You mention Moby dick and the Bible, as if books exist in a vacuum and BM alone is guilty of borrowing shit. You're actually so retarded you grasp at the lowest hanging fruit of criticism while turning a blind eye to the elephant in the room: that polysyndeton is not a copyright and that if Bible was actually written like BM, no one would read the Bible. Sure as hell not 6 billion people.

You call him an imitator, as if Faulkner wasn't imitating Joyce, or Joyce wasn't imitating Flaubert. I have little doubt you will now try to draw arbitrary lines to make them "novel", while once again turning a blind eye to the fact that BM resembles nothing in Faulkner (to some midwits everything with long sentences and gothic undertones is Faulknerian). BM is less like Faulkner than TSATF is like Ulysses. That's a fact.

You don't understand shit about the book. You think the violence is the draw when it is the one thing that turns more people away from the book than otherwise. I am also certain you think that Holden's speech about war is the thesis statement of the book, because that's what you've heard. As if there aren't half a dozen other equally important speeches in it. You don't have the intelligence to engage with the actual book, so you have resorted to wikipedia tier criticism.

I thought of explaining it to you but you're too retarded for my effortpost. There is a reason the book is written in non hierarchical polysyndeton which has nothing to do with the Bible. It's got to do with pallindrome.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:16:37 PM No.24541422
>>24541406
>oh yeah? oh yeah? well... well... YOU'RE A TRANNY!
Not who you're fighting with but god it's so fucking funny to watch a retard pretend to be smart on the internet.
>The vanity in your response screams of a person... articulate a response beyond the written equivalent
You write like you had a fedora phase
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:17:15 PM No.24541424
>>24541406
You're too retarded. You can teach a dumb person, but you can't teach anything to a dumb and arrogant one.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:18:27 PM No.24541428
>>24541406
It's completely wasted on a retard like you but you can try

http://blogmeridian.com/blog/
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:20:20 PM No.24541434
>>24541406
>The vanity in your response screams of a person who wants to be right, but is unable to articulate a response beyond the written equivalent of flailing your arms
Talk about hypocrisy
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:22:09 PM No.24541440
>>24541422

You are so emotionally rattled by this that you're struggling to even format your response correctly. What stopped you from finishing the quoted sentence? Are your fingers shaking?
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:23:07 PM No.24541444
>>24541440
>literal redditspace
Lol
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:24:54 PM No.24541448
Screenshot 2025-07-11 at 17-24-16 _lit_ - Cormac McCarthy - Literature - 4chan
>>24541440
You fucking tard I'm not who you're fighting with
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:25:25 PM No.24541452
>>24541417

>BM resembles nothing in Faulkner

McCarthy was a failed southern gothic who pivoted after spending a time in the desert. His literary references are as ham-fisted in BM as his Faulkner imitation in the Orchard Keeper.

The fact you don't even recognize elements of Faulkner's writing in BM, and are incapable of seeing traces of Faulkner's influence in the body of McCarthy's work as a whole, is evident you are completely out of your depth. Thank you though, for proving my point.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:28:31 PM No.24541458
>>24541428

>please read this blog

Why are you so scared of discussing lit on /lit/? LOL
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:32:02 PM No.24541469
>>24541452
>redditspacing
>vague gesturing
Yeah, par for the course for midwits.
>incapable of seeing traces of Faulkner's influence in the body of McCarthy's work as a whole
Never said i didn't. You got one thing right. Faulkner is in traces in Mccarthy after outer dark. Mccarthy's brand of modernism is the exact opposite of Faulkner's highly internal variety. May as well call all modernists imitators. Mccarthy would still stand out.

There are little to no elements of Faulkner in BM. Your retarded claims won't become true just because you skimmed wikipedia. If traces are enough to call him an imitator, then Faulkner was only ever an imitator for half a dozen writers all his life. Mccarthy's voice is far more distinct. The fact you can't see this is evidence to just how retarded you are.

Your criticism is poor because it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. It's just a bunch of vague statements and high school variety of criticism of a writer. A writer who is far more unique in his vision than any of his predecessors no less. I am already giving you too much respect by replying.
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:32:49 PM No.24541473
>>24541452
>m'lady
Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:35:08 PM No.24541481
>>24541458
Because you're not worth the time. You can't even discern the most basic elements of the book. What use is talking about the book's pallindromic structure or the fact that the parataxis is there to allow a reading backwards. You'd just call it pseud worship. The truth is that Mccarthy is too singular for your modernism addled brain right now. I will wait for you to get out of your joyce, faulkner, beckett phase before you can appreciate Mccarthy.

If you really want, just read.
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:44:25 PM No.24541515
>>24541452
>McCarthy was a failed southern gothic who pivoted after spending a time in the desert. His literary references are as ham-fisted in BM as his Faulkner imitation in the Orchard Keeper.
If you had progressed past high school and actually cared for literature, you'd know the Orchard keeper is far more indebted to Thoreau's Walden than the occassional italics it indulges of Faulkner. But that's for serious readers not you.

For actual serious reading. Here is a long analysis of Suttree by the greatest Faulkner scholar. A book nothing like Faulkner's southern gothic, he agrees.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42909726
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:56:10 PM No.24541542
>>24541481

>the fact that the parataxis is there to allow a reading backwards

Oh ok it’s the great American novel because one of its “basic” concepts is that you can read it backwards like a jap comic book.

Go back to /co/ you complete and utter pseud
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Anonymous
7/11/2025, 11:58:04 PM No.24541547
>>24541542
>redditspacing
>highly ironic dismissals
You're a trainwreck lol. That's not the only thing about it. You're a retard so it's no use telling you, but BM is a gimmick novel more profound than the Bible. That's why he is great.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:00:17 AM No.24541554
>>24541547
>>24541542
Can you two shake your dicks? It's over, we get it.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:09:48 AM No.24541577
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>>24536085 (OP)
Thomas Ligotti utterly MOGS this corncoby prick.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:12:32 AM No.24541584
>>24541577
I think you're just having buyer's remorse
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 12:14:43 AM No.24541596
>>24541584
Go eat more corn you poor faggot.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:35:19 AM No.24541803
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I read Blood Meridian and I have the road, what other books of McCarthy should I read next?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:47:55 AM No.24542147
>>24541547

>That’s not the only thing about it

That’s why I said “one of,” instead of “only.” The fact you’re struggling to parse out that single post makes me wonder if you’re ESL. I’m sure the Spanish passages in BM were quite helpful for you.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 4:50:25 AM No.24542150
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>>24541417

>There is a reason the book is written in non hierarchical polysyndeton which has nothing to do with the Bible. It's got to do with pallindrome.

You misspelled palindrome, by the way.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:39:49 AM No.24542227
>>24542147
>>24542150
>seething about 4 hours over inconsequential shit
Lmao triggered
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:42:52 AM No.24542232
>>24542147
>>24542150
>still seething 4 hours later about the pettiest shit
Lol. You're retarded and probably a newfag. At least i understood the book. That's more than what can be said about you and your pea sized brain.

Stop redditspacing or go back where you came from.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:45:42 AM No.24542238
>>24542232

>ESL resorts to vague insults out of fear of an elaborate exchange

Yes yes go back to your siesta Mr Juan Sanchez. You have to get up early tomorrow for your shift at the lawn mowing factory. Do you read blood meridian in between shifts? Do you get grass trimmings in between all the pages?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:46:38 AM No.24542240
>>24542150
>literally using AI
Are you retarded? Is Henry james the same as Proust because both of them use a lot of dependent clauses? Seriously, are you even of legal age to post on 4chan? Polysyndeton is simply the use of multiple conjunctions, nothing more. You can still vary the style wildly by controlling the length of the fragments, and diction. Posting ai overview is not the gotcha your redditspacing ass thinks it is. You don't even understand writing styles.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:47:51 AM No.24542245
>>24542238
>redditspacing ESL whines about vague insults
You don't say, retard. You have been seething for 4 hours over nothing and that's the best you came up with lol.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:49:50 AM No.24542251
>>24542238
>retard couldn't even reply to an elaborate effortpost
How fucking hypocritical! You have been destroyed by people itt. They picked apart your high school level criticism and you couldn't even articulate a reply. You're not scaring anyone, retard.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:54:06 AM No.24542263
>>24542240
>>24542245

Same-fagging is unbecoming for an austere mojado such as yourself. What would senor McCarthy think about such lack of composure? Your English is quite good, besides the obvious.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:54:27 AM No.24542264
>>24542150
>ESL with no reading comprehension
I said there's a reason.[...] that has nothing to do with the Bible. Not the polysyndeton itself has nothing to do with the Bible. I feel like I am insulting HS by comparing them to you. You read at like a grade school level.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:55:54 AM No.24542268
>>24542245
>>24542263
Get a room, fags.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:56:36 AM No.24542271
>>24542263
>oooooh muh ironic eloquence
Shut the fuck up. Stick to your high school textbooks instead of embarrassing yourself here. Lest we get travesties like every sentence with more than 2 ands in it is inspired by the Bible lol.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 5:59:06 AM No.24542281
>>24542150
>completely sincerely and unironically using AI overview to seethe
Dude, just pick up and read the Bible. And hopefully read Blood meridian too some time.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:01:02 AM No.24542286
>>24542264
>>24542271

Senor, please contain your Asperger rage into one post. I know you need to defend your father figure McCarthy but please, have some dignity! Go back to your favela in peace! It’s alright that he’s obviously trying to inject a biblical veneer to his gimmick of a novel. You can still appreciate it!
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:02:35 AM No.24542292
>>24542281

Where do you think the AI got the information to compile the response? The ether? Your empty noggin? You can’t even articulate why the response is wrong, other than “ITS AI!!! OMG!!”. This is why you’re getting replaced by AI authors, by the way.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:04:27 AM No.24542295
>>24542286
My redditor cum retarded ESL friend, no one said it is not inspired by the Bible. Try to use the 2 braincells you have and comprehend what is being said. A mere biblical cadence is neither purpose nor end goal of the style. Hopefully it's easy enough for even someone as clinically retarded as you to grasp now.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:07:28 AM No.24542303
>>24542292
>unironically defending ai now
Holy fuck you have no hope kek. It's not surprising you come across as dumb. AI overview is no better than a 15 year old's writeup after reading the wiki. It's literally nothing but a long parroting of common talking points on reddit or shit on the wikipedia. Plus you're retarded because you couldn't even follow what was being said. Anon said that there are other reasons for the polysyndeton which have nothing to do with the Bible. You threw a hissy fit and posted AI overview. I'll be damned if anyone seriously thinks you have any point.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:13:01 AM No.24542311
>>24542295

>A mere biblical cadence is neither purpose nor end goal of the style

>Yeah I made my book sound like the Bible but it’s not because I want it to sound like the Bible, that’s not the purpose

Are you smoking crack?
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:15:47 AM No.24542316
>>24542303

There are AI written stories on royal road with more coherence than blood meridian. Please keep seething.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:19:05 AM No.24542319
He's probably not even the best writer named McCarthy.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:22:33 AM No.24542326
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>>24542311
>genuinely being this retarded
Is this the first time you picked up a book in your life?

If you actually read the Bible it doesn't read like Blood meridian. The similarity is in the occassional prophetic tone in BM. I don't have enough time to teach you what tones, diction, line length etc. mean in the context of style. The comparison between their styles end at both being prolific with 'and'. Everything else i just mentioned is different.

Are you genuinely retarded? Was everyone who was inspired by thomas Browne writing to do the same things as Browne did? Your understanding is so surface level that you can't even comprehend the book existing outside of it. Did you even read the blogs posted itt? If you aren't going to put in the effort, neither am i.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:23:45 AM No.24542329
>>24542316
That's just because you have 10 year old's reading comprehension
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:24:54 AM No.24542332
>>24542326
*anyone
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:26:59 AM No.24542337
>>24542326

Did you Thomas Browne your pants?

>The similarity is in the occassional prophetic tone in BM

“Occasional prophetic tone” is one way to put it. I don’t want my book to be too on the nose with the religious references, so let’s just insert a burning bush and have the Judge/the devil mix brimstone and piss to make gunpowder to kill people with. No no it’s a paradise lost reference senor i assure you, that’s all it is.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:32:24 AM No.24542349
>>24542337
Those are the only two references you got from the book, apart from that HS paper on moby dick and yet here you are throwing a hissy fit, retardedly thinking that those two references can somehow encompass 350 pages of the book. You'd be crying your eyes out at Ulysses. Blood meridian is the height of subtlety in comparison.

You have these random retarded whinings. Yeah it's a straightforward allusion. What's the problem with that? There are a lot that aren't straightforward, including the title of the book. Something your ai would never catch.
Replies: >>24542359
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:34:06 AM No.24542352
>>24542337
What did the story about the harnessmaker mean? Let's see all this on the nose religious symbolism.
Replies: >>24542364
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:36:39 AM No.24542359
>>24542349

>only two references

That makes two more than anything you’ve offered. Which is not surprising because you’re ESL. There’s even a moment at the start of BM where that dude prays for rain and it starts raining. Lots of miraculous stuff! McCarthy wanted to write a gnostic bible but got too caught up in his own pretensions.

>height of subtlety

Yeah real subtle. I’m gonna name my main character the kid. And then when he grows up he’s gonna be called the man. Reaaal subtle McCarthy.
Replies: >>24542367
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:38:49 AM No.24542364
>>24542352

What do you think Elrod means in hebrew? Reaaaal subtle there from McCarthy.
Replies: >>24542372 >>24542380
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:42:21 AM No.24542367
>>24542359
I don't even know what you're fighting over. You come in here armed having read two high school papers on the book. Don't have anything to share beside. Either ESL or genuine retardation, to the point you can't even comprehend what writing styles are supposed to look like. Resort to ai spam, and then try to take the moral high ground for posting the easiest, most googlable two references in the book. I didn't know we were in a reference catching competition. If you actually know jackshit, then tell me what is the title referring to?
>ESL retard fails to comprehend yet again
Height of subtlety relative to Ulysses, ESL retard. Can't get less subtle than characters literally transforing into what they're alluding.
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Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:44:03 AM No.24542372
>>24542364
>immediate deflection
You're pathetic.
Replies: >>24542377
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:47:43 AM No.24542377
>>24542372

You know I’m right which is why you’re dropping the question. Elrod, the king, or “God is the king.” Do I have to spell it out? Mr. English…as a second language?
Replies: >>24542386
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:49:39 AM No.24542380
>>24542364
>hebrew
it's from old english by way of germanic dude, not to mention common in the american south
>The surname Elrod is notably found in the United States, particularly in Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas, according to FamilySearch.
Replies: >>24542388
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:51:03 AM No.24542384
>>24542367

>Blood Meridian is much more subtle than to Ulysses

The only person who mentioned Ulysses was you, how are you flailing around in such a simple discussion? If BM is more subtle than that Irish abomination of a book, I couldn’t care less. You realize that a royal road slopper can run circles around Joyce or McCarthy? You should accept the inevitable, there would be more dignity in it.
Replies: >>24542389
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:51:47 AM No.24542386
>>24542377
That doesn't explain the story, retard. Elrod wasn't even some metaphysical character. It's ambiguous if he was the traveller's son and the harnessmaker's grandson. No shit he is named after God, that's what old people did. You can't spell out shit, ESL, because your AI isn't helping with my question and you're trying to weasel your way out
Replies: >>24542400
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:53:16 AM No.24542388
>>24542380

>I translated the name in different languages and the meaning is different

Wow, pat yourself on the back. Elrod still means King in Hebrew. I wonder why McCarthy used that name in particular, in that instance. Use your brain, senor!
Replies: >>24542395
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:53:32 AM No.24542389
>>24542384
You should just accept that you're retarded.
>than to
Already knew you were ESL but that's a dead giveaway. Not surprised you hate BM. ESLs usually do. You're also retarded on top so bad combination
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 6:55:57 AM No.24542395
>>24542388
>redditor retard can't even reply properly
Kek. The way you are hung up on it like it explains the story is hilarious to watch. At this point you're trying to save face. If you try posting anything about it you'd be found out for the retard that you are.
>"oooh look at this sexret thing that solves it. I will never tell"
Replies: >>24542404
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:00:20 AM No.24542400
>>24542386

>No shit he is named after God, that's what old people did

Oh ok so McCarthy just named him that for no reason, okay. Even though he put meticulous effort in the form and structure of the book, he just names people random things. Glanton was just the name of one of the strippers he met during his Suttree days.
Replies: >>24542410
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:03:15 AM No.24542404
>>24542395

>Deletes the post after being proven retarded

How are you this self-conscious on an anonymous board? LOL
Replies: >>24542410
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:05:57 AM No.24542410
>>24542400
Stop beating around the bush and answer the question. Elrod being named that doesn't explain the story. None of this "but see it's totally there" shit is gonna work.
>>24542404
>ESL retard is delusional again
No fucking idea wtf you're even talking about
Replies: >>24542418 >>24542419
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:08:34 AM No.24542416
He is never going to answer. He can't. He doesn't know jackshit. Don't waste your time.
Replies: >>24542419
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:09:09 AM No.24542418
>>24542410

>Elrod being named that doesn't explain the story

Yeah the kid named “God is the King” gets killed but the biblical allusion alludes you for some reason. AI could write with more subtlety than this.
Replies: >>24542427
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:10:09 AM No.24542419
>>24542416
>>24542410

Samefagging is bad for the gander.
Replies: >>24542433
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:16:34 AM No.24542426
BLOOD MERIDIAN_typology
BLOOD MERIDIAN_typology
md5: c93d03934f040c85f5f2a2bf124d1eb9🔍
>>24541354
>how this Faulkner imitator

Everything he ever put down until very late in his career required SARTORIS editorial butchery to reign in his FLAGS IN THE DUST excesses. Everything McCarthy does after Blood Meridian is tame by prosody comparison. The Kid delivers mercy to the Dancing Bear Girl that not one soul in that town could or would countenance, while tolerating that kind of prostitution in their midsts, and every evil he witnessed, suffered or was a party to must be judged in that light.
Replies: >>24542429 >>24542439
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:17:18 AM No.24542427
>>24542418
>vague retarded statements
Lmao. Your answer is neetche? That's your answer. Lol. Ofc you'd shill ai. You have the comprehension abilities of ai, which is like at a 10 year old's level.
Replies: >>24542434
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:18:29 AM No.24542429
>>24542426


>ex-priest
>ex-angel
Wow I’m retarded for not catching that sooner
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:19:49 AM No.24542433
>>24542419
Not your boogeyman
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:19:58 AM No.24542434
>>24542427

I described what happened in the book, it’s not an opinion. If you’re struggling to parse that out then I reiterate you should read more royal road. Any story on there has more coherence than BM.
Replies: >>24542445
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:21:48 AM No.24542439
>>24542426
Blood meridian's excess is not the same as Faulkner's. Mccarthy's later books are a pruning of the Suttree/BM style, not something entirely different. Even as early as Child of God, with its stark, decarative, slightly romatic tone, Mccarthy had stepped away from Faulkner.
Replies: >>24542451
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:25:17 AM No.24542445
>>24542434
You parroted one single plot point, which is not equivalent to an interpretation. Even less so for Blood meridian where part of theme is the incapability of symbols to acutely follow their referrents (words are things, as Judge said).

You must genuinely retarded. I asked for your interpretation and you did anything but. I don't need to parse the story. I already know it. The onus is on you to provide an interpretation, if literature is really what you want to talk about. It's always the same with you retards. Full of hot air until someone holds them up in court
Replies: >>24542456
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:26:48 AM No.24542451
>>24542439

Yes I too like stating vague truisms instead of posting something substantial. This is why effortposting is dead on this site.
Replies: >>24542454 >>24542457
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:28:27 AM No.24542454
>>24542451
We know that. That's all you have done in the thread.

If you want something substantial, it's been posted>>24541515. But you won't be able to engage with it because vague statements are all you are able to make and comprehend
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:29:52 AM No.24542456
>>24542445

>which is not equivalent to an interpretation

The whole point of the book was for it to be interpreted by readers. Maybe you like to read just to roll the pretty words around with glassy eyes in a typical deer-in-headlights stare, but some people put a little bit of thought behind reading. Not that it’s much to read to be honest; a failed gnostic bible gets tiresome eventually.
Replies: >>24542462
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:30:27 AM No.24542457
>>24542451
Bro, you're the mortal enemy of effortposting. It's staggering how someone with knowledge of just two references from the book has made 30 posts in the thread without writing a single thing of value.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:33:37 AM No.24542461
Why is everybody being so mean right now
Replies: >>24542464 >>24542468
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:34:01 AM No.24542462
lol
lol
md5: c3c68e934a4d77dfc36751c53b33e166🔍
>>24542456
>The whole point of the book was for it to be interpreted by readers.
Congrats on finally getting it. The abject hypocrisy in this post is something. The most vapid reader in the thread who couldn't make anything of the book beyond what the two HS papers told him to is talking about deeper reading. While trying his level best to deflect away from interpreting a famous story from the book. No no, it's the book's fault for this reader being a retard and a coward. It's like even your two braincells are underdeveloped.
Replies: >>24542466
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:35:27 AM No.24542464
>>24542461
Retards deserve it.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:37:19 AM No.24542466
>>24542462

Not one response could contend with anything I mentioned. BM is nothing more than a string of literary references in biblical drapery. Thanks for proving my point that pseuds can’t mention a single thing from the book to substantiate their love of such a midwit book.
Replies: >>24542471 >>24542482
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:38:54 AM No.24542468
>>24542461

For some reason people think McCarthy is more profound than a royal road writer. But it’s obvious none of them have finished reading the book. Which is fair.
Replies: >>24542477
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:40:01 AM No.24542471
>>24542466
>midwit seethe
Everything you have written is headcanon. When someone asked you to put you hand where your mouth is, you ran with the tail between your legs. Blood meridian is far more baudrillard than it is Bible (but i am sure the pimple scratching theologians can mentally gymnast into those interpretations as well.)

That's enough time wasted on a retard. Die in a fire.
Replies: >>24542474
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:41:46 AM No.24542474
>>24542471

>Everything you have written is headcanon

Yes when I describe events directly from the book that’s a headcanon. Senor you left your sombrero over here, pick it up before you go back to the ESL slums.
Replies: >>24542480
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:42:25 AM No.24542477
>>24542468
Least of all you. lol
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:44:40 AM No.24542480
>>24542474
>"when i describe the one plot point that i could skim off of the wikipedia, i have understood the whole story and can explain it but not when someone is seriously asking"
Lol. ESL retards hate the book because they are too retarded to read it then invent elaborate cope when someone forces them to actually discuss it for once.
Replies: >>24542485
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:46:56 AM No.24542482
>>24542466
>pseuds can’t mention a single thing from the book to substantiate their love of such a midwit book
That'd be like explaining quantum mechanics to a carpenter.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:50:00 AM No.24542485
>>24542480

>You don’t understand the book
>No I won’t mention why you’re wrong, you’re just wrong

Keep flailing, you know I’m right which is why you are still responding, but without substance. Obvious to everyone that you’re out of your depth.
Replies: >>24542489
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:50:30 AM No.24542487
Guys, it's just a faulknercuck having a melty because no one gives a shit about his idol anymore. This is not the first time he has posted this shit. Ignore him.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 7:53:39 AM No.24542489
>>24542485
Lol. I won't mention why you're wrong because you have posted nothing but vacuous shit with no meaning at all. To prove something wrong, there must be something in the first place.
>out of your depth
That should be engraved on your forehead after this showing lol.
Replies: >>24542498 >>24542507
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:00:05 AM No.24542498
>>24542489

>Lol. I won't mention why you're wrong

Because you know I’m right. There was a reason BM was initially taken out of print; it was immediately clocked as boring gnostic drivel and rightly treated as such, until the marvel-Disney-onions adjacent monkeys such as yourself came about to defend it. Only a matter of time before AI drowns all the slop out.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:03:15 AM No.24542501
>deleted it
Lol. How self conscious and stupid
Replies: >>24542510
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:06:37 AM No.24542507
>>24542489

>I know what you are but what am I

You clearly believe there is something meaningful, which is why you’re continuing the discussion and expending the time to respond. Pretending to be disaffected after several responses is just schizotypal behavior. Also you’re ESL senor.
Replies: >>24542512
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:09:26 AM No.24542509
>>24537433
>not the Great American Novel we thought we'd get
who the fuck is we, coastal socialites? you have to come to terms with the fact that you people arent americans.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:09:37 AM No.24542510
>>24542501

>Hallucinating replies

Did this discussion trigger your onset schizophrenia or are you just seething?
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:10:26 AM No.24542512
>>24542507
>yadda yadda yadda
You're ESL and retarded
Replies: >>24542513
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:11:07 AM No.24542513
>>24542512

>Can’t parse out a single reply

Thanks for admitting you’re ESL. Very brave!
Replies: >>24542517
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:13:46 AM No.24542517
>>24542513
>yapyapyapyapyapyap
You're ESL and retarded. Back to r/books with you.
Replies: >>24542521
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:16:07 AM No.24542521
>>24542517

And the McCarthy-fag shrivels away in shame. Good riddance, senor!
Replies: >>24542524
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:20:24 AM No.24542524
>>24542521
>blahblahblahblahblah
You're ESL and retarded. Reddit. Go back.
Replies: >>24542540
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:28:12 AM No.24542540
IMG_0096
IMG_0096
md5: 3bfee49af768244a0fa0aaefd134fb9f🔍
>>24542524

You like Reddit, senor? Show me your judge Holden drawings. BM is the epitome of ESL, literal pages of Spanish gibberish.
Replies: >>24542559
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:34:14 AM No.24542559
>>24542540
You're still an ESL and a retard. Reddit. Away with you now.
Replies: >>24542575
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 8:42:39 AM No.24542575
>>24542559
>shattered his psyche like a broken record

Mccarthyfags keep crying.
Replies: >>24542600 >>24542604
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:08:07 AM No.24542600
>>24542575
You're still ESL and retarded
>crying
Lol. Like your assblasted ass 4 hours later>>24542147>>24542150
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 9:09:14 AM No.24542604
>>24542575
>shattered his psyche like a broken record
Lol. The fuck is that non sense supposed to mean, ESL. Please translate into english.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:39:28 AM No.24542771
Wow he trolled you retards good... come the fuck on guys, he's been signing every post with the funny spacing, it should be beyond obvious little bro's goofing.
>>24541577
What on Earth does Ligotti have to do with McCarthy?
Replies: >>24542782 >>24545216
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:47:13 AM No.24542782
>>24542771
>Is he the best author of our time?
Yes, that's Ligotti.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:50:05 AM No.24542789
Thomas Ligotti is the true Americana author. All of his contemporaries are hacks.
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:31:15 PM No.24542936
>>24541384
McCarthyfags don't know what opinions are.
Replies: >>24542949
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:32:15 PM No.24542940
>>24541265
You're free to try
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:33:16 PM No.24542941
>>24541422
>You write like you had a fedora phase
That's all McCarthyfags
Replies: >>24542949
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:41:05 PM No.24542949
>>24542936
>>24542941
>still seething
Lol. You're still retarded and an ESL
Replies: >>24542977
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 1:58:59 PM No.24542977
>>24542949
A nigger who defends an author that can't into grammar shouldn't be accusing people of being ESL
Replies: >>24543002
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:09:50 PM No.24543002
>>24542977
Stop crying
Replies: >>24543016
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:20:22 PM No.24543016
>>24543002
Over what?
Replies: >>24543026
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 2:24:01 PM No.24543026
>>24543016
>being this dumb
Replies: >>24544999
Anonymous
7/12/2025, 11:05:34 PM No.24544365
>>24537333
Actually seething
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 3:25:29 AM No.24544999
>>24543026
>Mad that not everyone wants to suck McCarthy's dick
Replies: >>24545138
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:44:24 AM No.24545138
>>24544999
>still seething after 10 hours
Kek
Replies: >>24545175
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:18:44 AM No.24545175
>>24545138
What sort of criticism isn't seething?
Replies: >>24545392
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:49:47 AM No.24545216
>>24542771
>troll mentions AI and royal road in the same breath as McCarthy
The fact these retards were still engaging hours after those comments makes me think this site is just entirely redditors eager to jump on a post without even considering if it’s a genuine response. Truly some of the most brutal combinations of narcissistic autism on full display here.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:45:57 AM No.24545392
>>24545175
>criticism
You didn't post any sort of critique. Just seethe.
Replies: >>24545418
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:58:36 AM No.24545418
1510922345594
1510922345594
md5: 2a4e82d8f453f804c9888495e9e2748e🔍
>>24545392
Replies: >>24545751
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 11:35:42 AM No.24545751
>>24545418
>still seething
Ofc you're a tranime poster lol
Replies: >>24546031 >>24546075
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 2:42:57 PM No.24546031
>>24545751
Very shocking that people post anime on 4Chan
Replies: >>24546059
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 2:58:51 PM No.24546059
>>24546031
NTA but this argument has been dead for decades, it's not 2005, we're not on /a/
Replies: >>24546087
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 3:06:18 PM No.24546075
>>24545751
What does your seething over and obsession with anime have to do with whether someone is right?
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 3:10:16 PM No.24546087
>>24546059
This tourist will whine about brown immigration to the west and not see the profound irony.