tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post6976826992322529112..comments2024-02-24T20:29:17.083-05:00Comments on MINDFUL PLEASURES: OUTER DARK by Cormac McCarthyBRIAN OARDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-2918413963142420852016-06-30T22:33:55.036-04:002016-06-30T22:33:55.036-04:00Culla approaches the swamp, but it repulses him to...Culla approaches the swamp, but it repulses him to the point that he heads back up the road that brought him to it. There, he meets the blind prophet he talked with earlier. McCarthy's language clearly implies that the prophet will meet his end in the spectral swamp that Culla fleesUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760169139868284823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-67432363308137002822011-08-21T23:01:25.762-04:002011-08-21T23:01:25.762-04:00Jason,
Yes, I think you're right about the Li...Jason,<br /><br />Yes, I think you're right about the <i>Light in August</i> connection. At several points while reading <i>Outer Dark</i> I thought of the wandering, childless Rinthy as a kind of photo-negative of the wandering, pregnant Lena Grove.BRIAN OARDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00695622618831825498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991343547887142385.post-17065528584136976352011-08-21T22:42:10.140-04:002011-08-21T22:42:10.140-04:00Real good novel. Leaps better than the Orchard Kee...Real good novel. Leaps better than the Orchard Keeper, which just felt like a series of exercises in setting and tone.<br /><br />It also might be his most explicitly Faulknerian book. The premise and title always struck me as a sort of response to Light In August.Jason Miller Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17946424348389917264noreply@blogger.com