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Other 20th century American sublimities (prose fiction):

The Judge addresses the Kid.

Sabbath talks to an old man.

Rush that Speaks gets a letter from Dr. Boots.

Quentin Compson doesn't hate the South.

Delilah the slave wanders off after her owners kill themselves.

A 350 pound prostitute is possessive of her false memory of Steve Ketchel.

Suttree visits a ruined house.

Oedipa goes for a walk at night.

Alice and Smoky fall in love.

Auberon sees a parade out the bar window.

Pierce realizes a mistake was made.

Cheung's mother remembers leaving Vietnam.

Billy sees wolves outside in the snow.

Billy hears how a man lost his eyes.

Billy is lectured about maps.

Billy loses a dog.

Miss Lonelyhearts reads a letter from a girl with no nose.

Joe Christmas runs.

Date: 2011-01-12 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com
Totally great. Both those I get and those I don't. Lots of McCarthy....

Date: 2011-01-12 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
McCarthy writes more consistently toward sublime moments than even Crowley.

You'll have read all these - "Light of the World" and "The Burning" I had to look up the names from.

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