CxD #253: Cormac McCarthy; Grace + Resilience; 📚'23#23: ⭐️⭐️ Nietzsche & Philosophy
Cormac McCarthy died.
“You always have the hope that today I’m going to do something better than I’ve ever done.”
Professor Aaron Gwyn has a stellar literary eye and an on-going deep dive into Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s consensus masterpiece— which I have shamefully not yet read, perhaps because I’m too scared to.
Season 7, Episode 6 of QueerEye featured a transformation of unusual beauty and grace. Highly, highly recommended if you need dose of optimism and resilience.
I’m of the school that if you write, you ought to write with the intention of being understood. Deleuze writes with the intention of showing his readers that he’s on philosophical amphetamine.
But because the lurking ideas underneath the turgid prose are powerful, I kept working like a beast of burden, pulling hay stacks in the hot sun.
As long as being is a burden, the reactive man is there to carry it.
Having read this, I feel like an ass. A smarter as with a greater understanding of Nietzsche’s philosophy, but an ass nonetheless.
He does include this handy chart, however, which has immense value and is worth studying.
