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Kaius  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately

    Mr. Suttree it is our understanding at curfew rightly decreed by law and in that hour wherein night draws to its proper close and the new day commences and contrary to conduct befitting a person of your station you betook yourself to various low places within the shire of McAnally and there did squander several ensuing years in the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.

    In his defense, Suttree cries, "I was drunk."

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy.





lil  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    the company of thieves, derelicts, miscreants, pariahs, poltroons, spalpeens, curmudgeons, clotpolls, murderers, gamblers, bawds, whores, trulls, brigands, topers, tosspots, sots and archsots, lobcocks, smellsmocks, runagates, rakes, and other assorted and felonious debauchees.
smellsmocks? I can only imagine. - a notable list of lowlifers. Suttree's defence sounds like my mayor (Toronto's Rob Ford)'s defense for smoking crack: "probably in one of my drunken stupors."

Kaius  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hah, quite a character!

I only picked up Suttree after I read Roger Ebert article. It took McCarthy something like 20 years to write and it kinda shows as it is a little disjointed but its fully of harsh imagery beautifully described.

lil  ·  3839 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is some article by Ebert. RIP, Roger.