![]() That man is all men and who stands in the dock for us until our own time come and we must stand for him. We are not waiting for his history to be written. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us. “Every man’s death is standing in for every other. I’ll leave you with a passage that has always resonated with me, its from McCarthy’s own Cities of the Plain (The Border Trilogy, #3): Cormac McCarthy’s masterfully violent 1985 novel is a tough read but also an essential American novel. Todays focusMath: Impossible Shapes A form is called impossiblewhen our mind tries to interpret it as a three-dimensional object in Euclidean space, with straight edges and planar faces, instead of interpreting it as a two-dimensional object drawn on the paper plane. He was in the process of writing the screenplay for a film adaptation of “Blood Meridian.” I’m not sure what will happen to that project now.Īs I wrote, a few weeks back, If you’re adapting “Blood Meridian” then you best not miss. Some have succeeded in adapting McCarthy novels for the screen (“No Country For Old Men”) and others haven’t (“All the Pretty Horses”). McCarthy’s language was such that every page contained words you've never seen before, but they had a shape and music to them that you understood perfectly just what he meant. His best book was known to be “Blood Meridian”, which “Harold Bloom said he hated so much for its violence he threw it across the room twice, and then read it, declared it a masterpiece, and wrote the introduction for the Modern Library edition”. McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, about men, horses, pain and loyalty. These shapes, formed in an inconsistent manner, create a spooky optical illusion that can trick the brain into perceiving a false reality. Few authors throughout history have written so many indelible works of art. 1 Listen Share cdd20 on Unsplash I mpossible shapes have captured the imagination of people for centuries with their mind-bending illusions and deceptive appearances. I’m glad he got to write two books back to back last year. You best believe he achieved immortality a long time ago. Starting in the 1920s, the idea of 'metamorphosis'one shape or object turning into something completely differentbecame one of Eschers favorite themes. ![]() ![]() A giant, one of the great creative minds of the last century, has passed on. ![]()
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