Perhaps in the world’s destruction, it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic, and coldly secular.
― in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Interested in a rich reading of the literary and Biblical imagery of The Road and its theological significance? Consider putting Cyril O’Regan’s article “Darkness Visible” on your “to read soon” list.
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