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The Dark Room: Blood Meridian w/ Aaron Gwyn

Art of Darkness

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The Constructed Voice of Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy writes in third person. The narrator could very well be a person like the kid's father, a school teacher,. Someone who is of this world and is watching these men. Almost never almost never enters the heads of the characters. "The interior dimension is 98% absent," he says.

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