New World Dreaming

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Cowboy Country

Cowboy Country

Nature and Human Nature in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy

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Nowick Gray
Sep 08, 2023
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When a fictional world is viewed through the Transparent Eyeball, the objective witness, the world appears as real as we can make out our own: in fact more real, free of our imported filters. Not only is the landscape described in full stark detail, but also the horse-roping, the sootstained coffeepot, the rainwet trail poncho. The characters, by contra…

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