Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (01/10)

Note my commitment to gritty, earthy, manly. I dont use apostrophes or quotation marks. Not manly. Semicolons: super, super unmanly. Taut, lyrical descriptions of manly. Women and their adjectives. Manly.

Oh, look what I found:
The ashen prose covered everything. But then, in fits, the lyricism would appear like a blossom on a turd with the Germanic sprouting into Latinate. The reticulate sky would wrinkle its vermiculate back to expose a cloying sentimentality lacquered by logorrhea--a cheesy mysticism lurking behind the cracked, Naturalistic veneer. But here the sun never rose, for the old man and his scion, the bell tolled and all wrapped up in a startling deus ex via as the hooded, stoven-boned veteran hove into view and whisked our boy off to some humming deep-glen mystery older than man. (Link)