He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.
--Cormac McCarthy, "The Road"I'm enjoying it immensely, despite the glaring holes it has exposed in my vocabulary. A non-exhaustive list:
macadam
pipeclayed
hasp
quoits
rachitic
mastic
balustrade
cairns
jackstraw
I think about how good of a writer Cormac McCarthy is, and wonder how or if his writing has evolved. Did even his first manuscript shun punctuation? How does he decide to leave the apostrophe out of "wont" and "dont", but add it to "they'll"?
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