re: #82 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Even with it, I am draggin’. Two days of incoherence, or maybe more, time kind of dilated for awhile.

Luckily, I was reading the novel Louisiana for school, which is a novel that eschews standard mechanisms of time, space, and identity, so it all made total sense.

I just finished Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy.

I am not recommending that for anyone right now. Not so much a Western as a long look into a combination horror/road trip/Road Warrior/apocalyptic/Hobbesian nightmare that will have you ready to break out a box of razor blades and end it all. Think of listening to the really grim bits by Pink Floyd while on a bad acid trip and watching A Clockwork Orange.

I wish I wrote with a quarter of the skill the author has, and some of the quotes in the book are utterly compelling. For all that, it was not even remotely enjoyable.