Posts tagged as cormac mccarthy
Tropical Fish Netted In New Jersey River, Man Suffering Existential Crisis Finds Hope For Future
"Once the net was on the beach it was picking time. All sorts of bait jumped about. The majority of it was tiny green-tinted spearing. But the seine also netted grass shrimp, striped killies, a needle fish, one baby fluke and a tropical butterfly fish about the size of a quarter. Rarely do you see three people so fascinated by such a tiny specimen. Its golden green color glistened in the sunlight. 'It probably came up through the intercoastal waterway,' Figs suggested. The Manasquan River is the very northern end of the waterway that leads south to Florida. It could be that the little fish hitched a ride as larvae on a boat making the trip and hatched in the river. It's anyone's guess." READ MORE
Man Uses Word "Talismanic" For Good Cause
"When I grasped that some of the most complex, almost otherworldly fiction of the postwar era was composed on such a simple, functional, frail-looking machine, it conferred a sort of talismanic quality to Cormac's typewriter. It's as if Mount Rushmore was carved with a Swiss Army knife." That's Glenn Horowitz, a rare-book dealer, on the 50-year-old Olivetti Lettera typewriter he is helping Cormac McCarthy auction off for charity. Upon learning that before the invention the typewriter, many authors wrote their books in pen, Mr. Horowitz said that was like if the Egyptian pharaohs had built the pyramids with their teeth. Then he gazed out the window, imagining how much a full set of Egyptian pharaoh teeth would fetch at an auction...
