Comments on: Cormac McCarthy and ‘The Road’ to the Apocalypse http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/01/26/cormac-mccarthy-and-the-road-to-the-apocalypse/ Notes on paddling, fly-fishing, hiking, conservation, writing and reading, the St. Croix River, and life in Minnesota. Sat, 02 Apr 2011 04:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steven http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/01/26/cormac-mccarthy-and-the-road-to-the-apocalypse/comment-page-1/#comment-18645 Steven Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:28:32 +0000 http://dharmablog.everyday-beat.org/2007/01/26/cormac-mccarthy-and-the-road-to-the-apocalypse/#comment-18645 I just finished The Road today and had to search for some other humanity out there that had read it. I was haunted by this book. For me it was a page by page brutal experience. One that I am glad I endured. Having a 2 year old son transformed the whole experience. The loving bond touched me so deeply. The look into the future of our nuclear world made the whole sceneario seem so possible. You mention in your last paragraph about what the father would hope for, if anything. At first I thought that it is in our makeup as animals to keep going though there is little hope. But that was contrasted so well with the suicide of the mother. The contradictions of human life were so abundant: the good guys vs the bad guys, choosing life vs eating each other, the elements at the same time allowing them to continue but just barely. In the end I look at what endures: Love, the earth and God. I just finished The Road today and had to search for some other humanity out there that had read it. I was haunted by this book. For me it was a page by page brutal experience. One that I am glad I endured.

Having a 2 year old son transformed the whole experience. The loving bond touched me so deeply.

The look into the future of our nuclear world made the whole sceneario seem so possible.

You mention in your last paragraph about what the father would hope for, if anything. At first I thought that it is in our makeup as animals to keep going though there is little hope. But that was contrasted so well with the suicide of the mother. The contradictions of human life were so abundant: the good guys vs the bad guys, choosing life vs eating each other, the elements at the same time allowing them to continue but just barely.

In the end I look at what endures: Love, the earth and God.

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