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Remembering Cormac McCarthy

Bearing Witness to Silence Remembering Cormac McCarthy Adam S. Miller Jun 29, 2023 30 4 4 Share Where do we go when we die? he said. I don’t know, the man said. Where are we now? —Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) For Cormac McCarthy, meaning isn’t bone deep. It’s penumbral. Meaning is a shadow cast by the mass of an otherwise silent world. It’s a byproduct of the world’s mute turning. Here, redemption isn’t what happens when I finally talk the world into submission. It’s what happens when I learn to trust the world’s silence enough to finally stop talking. McCarthy’s novels orbit, ad infinitum, the

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