No less great; but McCarthy was awarded a Pulitzer for "The Road", not a Nobel.
RL On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, David Breecker wrote: > 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... > db ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
