*Cities of the Plain

Cities of the Plain -Cormac McCarthy
An oeuvre that changed my life, no doubt. No doubt. John Grady, Billy Parham, Suttree, wayfarers, the most honest reaches in the world, laboring over the trails of pre-history. The stories they tell are the stories that have always been told. The only story that there is to tell. I stood up and had to pace a few times in the middle of this one. Slug some port. Look away. The problem is that you can’t look away. Closing your eyes isn’t good enough.
“Above all a knowing deep in the bone that beauty and loss are one.”
“He walked up Juárez Avenue through the hucksters and pimps. He saw a boy selling stuffed armadillos. He saw a tourist drunk laboring up the sidewalk carrying a full suit of armor. He saw a beautiful young woman vomit in the street. Dogs turned at the sound and ran toward her.”