The Road / Cormac McCarthy

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
"To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong." Joseph Chilton Pearce

"If you press me to tell why I loved him, I feel that this cannot be expressed,
except by answering: Because it was he, because it was I."
Michel de Montaigne, "Of Friendship"

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Afterword

Because a great many otherwise admirable men do not read books American women write, I wanted to use a decidedly male pseudonym. ... Still i intended to publish the book as A. Dillard, hoping--as we all hope, and hope in vain--someone might notice only the text, not considering its jacket, its picture, or the advertising; and not remembering someone else's impression of the book, or its writer, or its other readers; and not knowing the writer's gender, or age, or nationality--just read the book, starting cold with the first sentence.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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