re: The crisp sound effects in No Country For Old Men

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He can practically write an entire paragraph without any type of punctuation. I know he is an OT favorite but his style is too distracting for me to enjoy. I should have prefaced that by saying that I'm an avid reader. I consider The Brothers Karamazov the greatest novel of all time. Just wanted to clarify that before the OT jumps on me accusing me of not reading anything more substantive than Twilight.

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From a fake Cormac McCarthy Yelp review of Chipotle:

See it swaddled in tinfoil on the desk in the bowels of that great tower, a bundle of meat and sauce in a place long ago ceded to silicone and copper. The stooped man eating that peasant food as if in consuming it he can escape to a farmfield in a verdant valley and look down and see blood running from his blisters and say, yes this is work. This is work. Instead his hands are clawlike and ruined by the keyboard and the mouse for he is a thing of bone and sinew in a sprawling contraption electric and of man’s creation but not of man at all. And were he to saw his breast open with that plastic knife and soak the carpet black with his hot blood and were he to look ceilingward like some stigmatic enraptured and with the bellows of his lungs let forth a soaring wail in that subbasement his screams would be swallowed by the acoustic panels and repulsed by the good steel door as if he had made no sound and spilled no blood at all.