Herman Melville – That Shakespearean Rag

“There’s no such thing as a life without bloodshed”: Cormac McCarthy, spiritual heir to Melville and Faulkner, dies at age 89

McCarthy's outlook was bleak and violent because the world he observed was bleak and violent.

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Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.

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Herman Melville's tale is a story of disillusionment and thwarted idealism.

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