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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
A very key point in the novel is when the boy points out the dissonance between what the man says, about them being the good guys, "but we never save anyone."
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Are we saving anyone today? In the ashen circumstances of The Road, it's easy to see how to "save someone" -- it is to feed them, to free them from the meatlocker. Who is McCarthy saving today? Who does he save in his personal life apart from his writing?
Is nobody being saved today? Do we pass each other by, to die, in order to self preserve?
How am I to save anybody today?
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"Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12
Last edited by Levin; 02-13-2009 at 04:43 PM.
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