Cormac McCarthy has an important lesson for today’s statesman
From our UK edition
“In the dawn there is a man progressing over the plain by means of holes which he is making in the ground…he enkindles the stone in the hole with his steel hole by hole striking the fire out of the rock which God has put there. On the plain behind him are the wanderers in search of bones … He strikes fire in the hole and draws out his steel. Then they all move on again.” Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West One evening this past summer, the sun sets on the blasted playing fields of Britain as another day of merciless heat draws to a close; the air loses its sting and half-light sets in. I sit, book in hand, taking notes in the margins, far away. Suddenly anxiety rises in my chest and the scorched world narrows. My breath catches; I am afraid.
