This month's Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel: Dr. Zaius, William Blake, and William Gass.
Dr Zaius: Clearly All the Pretty Horses illustrates the warning given to us by the Lawgiver.
New York Times book reviewer, Madison Smartt Bell, said All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy had ""magnificent scenes that make Faulkner's story "Spotted Horses" seem almost forgettable" What did the Unpublished Guy fiction panel think? This week's panel includes Dr. Zaius, William Blake, and William Gass.
Dr. Zaius: Clearly All the Pretty Horses illustrates the warning given to us by the Lawgiver. "Let him not breed in Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair. For he is the harbinger of death. Just as warned by the lawgiver, John Grady is the harbinger of death: his father, Blevins, and an anonymous assassin in Mexican prison. He makes a desert of the home and that of his Mexican host, by deflowering Don Hector's daughter. Don Hector, who had treated him like a son.
William Blake: O Cormac McCarthy! Strongest of authors, the Samson shorn by the Joyces! Showing the punctuators in Hell, the proud minimalists in Heaven: With Laws from Carver and his Geeks to renew the Postmodern Gods, In Albion; & to deny the value of arbitrary punctuation.
William Gass: In All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy doesn't mind looking self-indulgent with stylistic experimentation. Course, I was doing it before he was, and I know when he saw what I had done, it gave him the confidence and great recompense from the Lord.
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