Urban Outfitters
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire they forage like scavengers their faces frozen in a rictus of worldweary their clothes preworn in some tropical factory and they shop and they hunt with dullbrown eyes through that cavalcade of false trinkets and those shrinkwrapped mockeries laying there in silent indictment and they reach out to touch those trite things and their faces are slack but in their gullets a scream lies stillborn for they are the kings and the queens reigning over the death of their people and the world is not theirs and never was and the suffering and the horrors are not their doing but the work of their bankrupt forbears and before them stretches an abyss beyond man’s imagining and within their lifetime the promise of a coming reckoning measured in blood and in pestilence and they shuffle through that store near paralytic and finally they take a metal thing with a feather on it and they buy that thing.
http://yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com/post/13874660168/urban-outfitters
Well done Lisa. Did you write that? When I tried opening the urban outfitter link it crashed...
ReplyDeleteI was working on a parody of McCarthy & Roth to describe the death of 2 of our tropical fish... Stirring stuff (or not in the case of Roth...)
ha ha. very funny. yelping with Cormac...
ReplyDeleteI wish I had the wherewithal to write such a parody! If the link worked it would direct you to a lot more of those Cormac inspired 'yelp' reviews of shops (the Ikea one is pretty good too) - the Tumblr website tells you:
ReplyDelete"This is not by the real Cormac McCarthy. He is out there somewhere pulling a novel out of a horse skull. This tumblr is a writing experiment by EDW Lynch."
The death of the tropical fish could definately be given the Cormac McCarthy treatment; I'd bet for a start that the cadavers had been part cannibalised? and probably their ears were missing?