Monday, April 12, 2021

Book Excerpt for the Day

    The judge placed his hands on the ground.  He looked at his inquisitor.  “This is my claim,” he said.  “And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life.  Autonomous.  In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.” (…)


    “I don’t see what that has to do with catchin’ birds.”


    “The freedom of birds is an insult to me.  I’d have them all in zoos.”


    “That would be a hell of a zoo.”


    The judge smiled.  Yes,” he said.  “Even so.”


    (from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy)

 

    7*/10.  The full review is here.

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