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I am reminded, when something doesn't make sense to me -- the relationship between McCarthy and the Santa Fe Institute -- I have collapsed someone's entire day
by brudgers 3y ago
I am reminded, when something doesn't make sense to me -- the relationship between McCarthy and the Santa Fe Institute -- I have collapsed someone's entire day to day experience into a short phrase.
McCarthy did not leverage acclaim into Hollywood work like Faulkner. He worked with people who appreciated his skills directly.
McCarthy had a day job. That makes sense. My unease with imagining his playing celebrity was worthy.
- ioblomov 3y agoFWIW, pretty sure Faulkner only wrote for Hollywood to pay the bills. Recall a story I wish I could locate about him impersonating a servant when bill collectors showed up at his crumbling family estate. He also had a stint as the night watchman at the University of Mississippi (which, unlike Hollywood, allowed him time to really write). Until The Portable Faulkner was published in 1946 most of his books were already out of print.