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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.”
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 (an...
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 ;-)
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 ;-)