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[Image description: A photograph of a page from Cormac McCarthy's The Road. A person's thumb is in the corner of the image, holding the book open. The text is in McCarthy's unique style. Although it is entirely dialogue between two characters, there are no quotation marks or dialogue tags, and certain words are deliberately misspelled. It reads:

"lucky again. You'll see. Just go. It's all right.

I cant.

It's all right. This has been a long time coming. Now it's here. Keep going south. Do everything the way we did it.

You're going to be okay, Papa. You have to.

No I'm not. Keep the gun with you at all times. You need to find the good guys but you cant take any chances. No chances. Do you hear?

I want to be with you.

You cant.

Please.

You cant. You have to carry the fire.

I dont know how to.

Yes you do.

Is it real? The fire?

Yes it is."

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The Road By Cormac McCarthy Fandom Please Revive It Makes Me Want To Vomit And Scream While Crying

The Road by Cormac McCarthy fandom please revive it makes me want to vomit and scream while crying

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the road Cormac McCarthy apocalypse fiction the secret to enjoying apocalyptic fiction is knowing what it's for it isn't about a literal end of the world it's about how one day the world will end for all of us in the form of our deaths and how characters cope with the apocalypse is another way of exploring how they and we cope with death hell a great deal of the references to 'the rapture' in the christian bible aren't actually about the rapture. they're about death they were reinterpreted so that people could pretend they'd never die and that has led to a lot of agony and tragedy the road SEEMS like it's in a different world but it's not it's our world if you survive long enough then your skills and experiences will become incomprehensible to those born to the new world “you must think i'm from another planet” and all you can do is hope that you give the young enough hope and enough strength to survive and thrive to carry the fire
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