David Foster Wallace on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: “Don’t even ask.” From his 1999 piece in Salon, “Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960.”
David Foster Wallace on Blood Meridian
David Foster Wallace on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian: “Don’t even ask.” From his 1999 piece in Salon, “Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels > 1960.”
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Matt Bucher (http://www.mattbucher.com/), the admin for Wallace-i, recently spent some time with Wallace’s copy of Blood Meridian at the Harry Ransom Center. He shared one of Wallace’s annotations with me via Twitter: “MORE OR LESS NO COMMAS.”
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A note I have (also from Matt Bucher):
“DFW’s copy of Blood Meridian is the most heavily annotated book I have
ever seen. There is almost no white space left. The endsheets are
filled with sequential questions to himself. On the title page he
wrote MORE OR LESS NO COMMAS, in bright red ink.”
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Thanks, brooks!
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I think that DFW wrote “Dont even ask”, without an apostrophe, as a nod to McCarthy’s idiosyncratic punctuation.
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[…] think I’ll just leave David Foster Wallace’s words about this book with you: “Don’t even […]
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