{"id":8959,"date":"2025-10-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8959"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:04:39","slug":"cormac-mccarthy-was-one-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/cormac-mccarthy-was-one-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"CORMAC McCARTHY WAS ONE OF US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve read some, but not all, of novelist Cormac McCarthy\u2019s work, and ironically was currently reading his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pHpeDr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blood Meridian<\/a>\u201d when our PO Box yielded the September\/October issue of\u00a0<em>Smithsonian\u00a0<\/em>magazine, which included an article on the late novelist focusing on his vast, eclectic, 20,000 volume book collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed that his younger brother Dennis said of Cormac to the magazine, \u201cHe never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article continues, \u201cWhy was he always armed? \u2018He was a&nbsp;&nbsp;conservative country boy from the South who understood that the world is a dangerous place\u2019 (his brother answered).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly, Cormac McCarthy was One Of Us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article includes pix of one of the several gun books&nbsp;&nbsp;McCarthy owned, and a schematic McCarthy hand-drew of tools for rifling one\u2019s own gun barrel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re not familiar with Cormac McCarthy\u2019s writing, you\u2019ve very likely at least seen movies based on his novels: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gGuB1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All the Pretty Horses<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gJobyz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No Country for Old Men<\/a>,\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3VDzX46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Road<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pHpeDr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blood Meridian<\/a>\u201d may have been too spectacularly violent to make into a movie\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve read some, but not all, of novelist Cormac McCarthy\u2019s work, and ironically was currently reading his \u201cBlood Meridian\u201d when our PO Box yielded the September\/October issue of\u00a0Smithsonian\u00a0magazine, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8959\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}