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Ep 54 - The Road (Cormac McCarthy)

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It's a Knife Edge

The road by mc carthy is one of my personal favourites. It feels like a faithful representation of how we would survive, man and son, after it all burnt down. I don't believe this is an overt warning to us, perhaps we cannot help but read it as so. And that's one of the joys of imaginative literature, is its vicarious learning, or vicarious experience. If you get a really great novel, and i think the road, by comitMcCarthy, is pretty great.

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