#there is no such joy in the tavern as on the road thereto

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The embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them, and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and are divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be.

I have had that memorized for years, ever since I first read Blood Meridian. I had never learned any literary quotes before, but the sheer might of his prose gave me this feeling like I have to bottle this up. I had to memorize a piece of that, and carry it with me. I will always try to carry that fire.

I hope you enjoyed your life, Mr. McCarthy. I wish I could have met you before you passed.

[mopti-cd]

they should make a type of art that you just think about, is instantaneously ripped from the waking dream that is your own consciousness, and is then given physical form

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"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto" - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian

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“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.” - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

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"There is no more joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto." -Cormac McCarthy

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"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto." Cormac McCarthy

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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

from Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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Highlights for Blood Meridian

“We are dealing with a people manifestly incapable of governing themselves. And do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.”

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto, said the Mennonite.

Sproule sat without moving. The kid looked at him but he would look away. He was wounded in an enemy country far from home and although his eyes took in the alien stones about yet the greater void beyond seemed to swallow up his soul.

But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

And so these parties divided upon that midnight plain, each passing back the way the other had come, pursuing as all travelers must inversions without end upon other men’s journeys.

They’d been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man’s appearance.

The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

Their arms aloft pulling at their clothes were luminous and each obscure soul was enveloped in audible shapes of light as if it had always been so.

The horse screamed and kicked but the bull had planted its feet and it lifted the animal rider and all clear of the ground before Miller could get his pistol free and when he put the muzzle to the bull’s forehead and fired and the whole grotesque assembly collapsed he stepped clear of the wreckage and walked off in disgust with the smoking gun dangling in his hand.

Each man scanned the terrain and the movements of the least of creatures were logged into their collective cognizance until they were federated with invisible wires of vigilance and advanced upon that landscape with a single resonance.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Of such corporal histories even as these he bore no tidings and although it was the custom in that wilderness to stop with any traveler and exchange the news he seemed to travel with no news at all, as if the doings of the world were too slanderous for him to truck with, or perhaps too trivial.

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