I’ve read some, but not all, of novelist Cormac McCarthy’s work, and ironically was currently reading his “Blood Meridian” when our PO Box yielded the September/October issue of Smithsonian magazine, which included an article on the late novelist focusing on his vast, eclectic, 20,000 volume book collection.
I noticed that his younger brother Dennis said of Cormac to the magazine, “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.”
The article continues, “Why was he always armed? ‘He was a conservative country boy from the South who understood that the world is a dangerous place’ (his brother answered).”
Clearly, Cormac McCarthy was One Of Us.
The article includes pix of one of the several gun books McCarthy owned, and a schematic McCarthy hand-drew of tools for rifling one’s own gun barrel.
If you’re not familiar with Cormac McCarthy’s writing, you’ve very likely at least seen movies based on his novels: “All the Pretty Horses,” “No Country for Old Men,” or “The Road.”
“Blood Meridian” may have been too spectacularly violent to make into a movie…
Wonderful author. His “Child of God” was something else and starkly different from his usual tales of the Southwest.
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
― Rudyard Kipling
A little off topic Mas, but you should do a story on the disparity of force thing last week with the football player versus the old man. I’m sure that will surprise a lot of people.
Not sure which case you’re talking about, sir. Can you furnish a link?