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Cormac McCarthy on Luck
Thanks to my conversation with Mr. Seabass in the JLC forum, I just recalled yet another all-time favorite citation from recently deceased Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and playwright Cormac McCarthy........
Anytime Emmanuel....
This citation first hit me hard in recollection 5 years ago when the famous basketball player Kobe Bryant tragically died with his young daughter in a helicopter crash. Here was a man with his young child who, to most other people, had all the fortune (and of course skill) in the world, yet his life (and his child's) instantly perished in this tremendous tragedy, and no preceding fortunes could have helped him avoid this epochal misfortune. There truly is no limit to life's ironies and tragedies........
It's definitely one of those 😁
I think I had to re-read the sentence the first time I read it 🙂....
McCarthy is one of my favorite authors -- so good.
I've got Blood Meridian in my current queue, which I have already read and will read again soon.
Cheers,
John
I’d never thought of bad luck or misfortune in this way
He may well be right. A related question is whether things happen for a reason. But wait, this is a watch forum ;-)
McCarthy puts it nicely, but the classic blues line from Born Under a Bad Sign, popularized by Albert King and later covered by Cream, is a worthy rival with a different twist: “if it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.”
I’d never thought of bad luck or misfortune in this way
He may well be right. A related question is whether things happen for a reason. But wait, this is a watch forum ;-)