I've always been at a bit of a loss to understand why novelist Cormac
McCarthy is in residence at SFI (apart from the fact that he's
brilliant and so are a lot of people there, and I'd certainly have
him in residence in my office if I could); but reading his Nobel-
winning post-apocalyptic "The Road" I came across two lines in as
many pages that started to make it more clear:
"The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the
light and is gone."
"Query: how does the never to be differ from what never was?"
That's enough to make afternoon tea more interesting...
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