{"id":1359,"date":"2008-10-30T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T09:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2008-10-30T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T09:09:02","slug":"the_road_redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"The Road, redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I finished it. A movie of the boo<\/a>k is coming out next year. Two sections:<\/p>\n

What do you want to do?
\nJust help him, Papa. Just help him.
\nThe man looked back up the road.
\nHe was just hungry, Papa. He’s going to die.
\nHe’s going to die anyway.
\nHe’s so scared, Papa.
\nThe man squatted and looked at him. I’m scared, he said. Do you understand? I”m scared.
\nThe boy didn’t answer. He just sat there with his head bowed, sobbing.
\nYou’re not the one who has to worry about everything.
\nThe boy said something but he couldnt understand him. What? he said.
\nHe looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

He [the boy] walked back into the woods and knelt beside his father. He was wrapped in a blanket as the man has promised and the boy didn’t uncover him but he sat beside him and he was crying and he couldn’t stop. He cried for a long time. I’ll talk to you every day, he whispered. And I wont forget. No matter what. Then he rose and turned and walked back out to the road.
\nThe woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didnt forget. The woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet through it pass from man to man through all of time.
\nOnce there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pgs. 259 and 286-287, respectively. The Road<\/em>, by Cormac McCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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