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his evil.
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It does not track along those lines, and in fact, the whole novel renders
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the idea of a moral machinery moot, and you can see that,
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a little bit, too, in the epigraphs.
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I won't stop on those right now.
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The epigraphs to the novel suggest, also, the futility of a moral
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discourse.
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I argued on Monday that there were two threads of tradition,
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or inheritance, or influence that McCarthy is
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drawing on: one historical-- and I noted Sam Chamberlain's source
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material from his account of his life with the Glanton Gang--
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and then that whole train of literary allusions that