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>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.