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Originally Posted by neilmarr
With you Bhartman. Much as I love McCarthy's writing, his pretentious abuse/unuse of punctuation really gets up my nose. Punctuation has slowly developed over time to allow an author to communicate more clearly with his reader; to ignore it is to show arrogance, if not contempt, I think. N
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I was actually quite impressed how well it worked. He certainly doesn't stick to the usually recognised rules, but it's still very readable. It's not bad grammar - it's different rules. I can be quite a stickler for the usual rules as weil, but I tried to approach this as if it was poetry - poets don't always stick to the rules either. Anyway, I think it was written in a way that served that lack of punctuation.
I remember only handful of sentences where I felt it ran on without a comma, but it wasn't a big deal. With the minimalist punctuation, it felt simple and smooth.
A couple of times it was not completely clear who was who in a dialogue - but then when I started over to track who was who, it struck me that it really wasn't necessary. It didn't matter who said what, but that it was said at all.
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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
As for the destruction of the world, I think it just...got sick...
Kind of like pollution, global warming, over population. The world just got sick and died. Like every other living thing.
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Hell, even the ocean was dead. It was like everyone and everything just gave up.
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This is a very interesting and creative way of putting it. Makes me think of things that live in cycles; such as onion type plants - they grow, flower and die, and start over. Now I am reminded of the Inca mythology, in which the world has gone thorugh several ages. We're in a world that has just gone through a cataclysm.