Posted by chujoe on July 25, 2010, at 6:01:18 [reposted on July 26, 2010, at 2:50:18 | original URL]
In reply to Re: feeling equal )fayeroe » fayeroe, posted by sigismund on July 25, 2010, at 0:39:08
> >We've been discussing the new law that Arizona just passed that pertains to illegal immigration. Check it out.
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> I've been reading Cormac McCarthy, particularly The Crossing, but also All the Pretty Horses and Blood Meridian. It's not the first sentence, but almost
> 'The new country was rich and wild. You could ride clear to Mexico and not strike a crossfence.'
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> Well, the American who organised the Sydney Writers Festival this year was saying that CMcC got the idea for The Road by looking out of his window in El Paso. He said 'I don't know if you know El Paso, but if you do that may make sense'.
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> He has a wonderful sense of if not nostalgia then regret for ruined landscape.I've been reading William Vollmann's Massive "Imperial", about the county in Southern California where my mother was born. The book, which was published with a huge companion volume of Vollmann's photographs (also, confusingly, called Imperial) delves deeply into the ruination of landscape and culture through unrestrained capitalism. Because of its size, it may be too much for many readers, but I'm about 300 pages in & am finding it fascinating -- only q thousand or so pages to go!
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