“I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.”

^^ Heard. ^^ 

Cormac’s a vibe, no doubt about it. If you want to see fictional suffering flayed and splayed in stark vivid prose, read this. No surprise that McCarthy is relentlessly bleak but some surprise, at least for me, at just how far into the “outer dark” he goes here. And how funny he can be. Maybe that’s just me. I find comedy in the deepest blackest holes. 

John, thanks for the recommendation; this ink in the water (blood in the breast milk, as Cormac would have it) hit the spot.

PS: I separated art from artist here and pretended I read this before learning Cormac was apparently a rank dog.