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GUEST COLUMNIST DAVID ANTHONY TALKS ABOUT FANTASIES OF TREASURE IN HIS NOVEL SOMETHING FOR NOTHING AND IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NARRATIVE

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1 APRIL 2018 GUEST COLUMNIST DAVID ANTHONY TALKS ABOUT FANTASIES OF TREASURE IN HIS NOVEL SOMETHING FOR NOTHING AND IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NARRATIVE

     

A short way into Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men (recreated so memorably by the Cohen Brothers), the protagonist Llewelyn is out hunting in the plains of southern Texas when he stumbles upon the aftermath of a shootout between rival drug gangs.  There are bodies everywhere, and the one survivor is soon to die.  But the really important discovery is a satchel full of money.  Like a character in a fairy tale, Llewelyn opens the case, and finds unimaginable riches.  Here is the key quote:

[H]e reached and unbuckled the two straps and unsnapped the brass latch and lifted the flap and folded it back.  It was level full of hundred dollar banknotes.  They were in packets fastened with banktape stamped each with the denomination $10,000. 

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