User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Happy Birthday Cormac McCarthy!/@comment-26030957-20150720212911

Hi guys. The thing I like about Cormac McCarthy is he doesn't give a fuck and does things the way he wants. He doesn't even use punctuation half the time. Outer Dark takes place in the late eighteen hundreds, but listen to this quote, "The trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them."

Androids? In a book written in a biblical style that take place sometime in the eighteen hundreds? The guy does what he fucking wants. He's Cormac McCarthy and if he doesn't want to use quotation marks, no New York editor is going to stop him. lol.