Gone

Cormac McCarthy

Never felt the need to eulogize someone or comment on their death publicly. I might have opined on Prince or Tom Petty.

I have only read a few of McCarthy’s books.

The one that hit me like a freight train was The Road.

That book absolutely devastated me.

Deep worry, a feeling of sorry, and a small sense of hope.

Stark and scary and too real. The story was just absolutely possible.

But still, in all the fright and bleakness, a little spark of maybe, even slips of humor.

And with that, he is gone.

Tis a strange world.

Funny getting to this age, realizing how quickly it is going, and how little might be left.

Cormac McCarthy, spare and haunting novelist, dies at 89