“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” -- Cormac McCarthy (July 20, 1933-June 13 2023), "The Road." McCarthy, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for that novel, is considered one of the great American novelists. His works also include "Blood Meridian,""No Country For Old Men," and "All The Pretty Horses." While his writing has been compared to "early Hemingway," we think it's more aptly described as "timeless McCarthy."
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