
The Dark Room: Blood Meridian w/ Aaron Gwyn
Art of Darkness
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The Importance of Narrative in Fiction
McCarthy created a narrator who from the very first spinance is present at you know in the spirit of of narration as if he's hovering and commands see the child. He doesn't make many judgments, but he makes some when there's a distinct one. There's a passage where Glanton performs what's basically a mercy killing, which is strange. And before he does that, he does something very unglant. If you have evaluations they come from the characters, right? It's something I mean, it taught me studying this book as someone trying to write fiction in my mid 20s."
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