I’m not going to post more quotes from this brilliant book, because it is a giant quotation in (by?) itself.

Read the whole thing.

“The factual and the suspect are both subject to the same dimming with time. There is a fusion in the memory of events which is at loose ends where reality is concerned. You wake from a nightmare with a certain relief. But that doesn erase it. It's always there. Even after it's forgotten.”

Stella Maris https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60526802-stella-maris

#CormacMcCarthy
#StellaMaris

“Well. I think maybe it’s harder to lose just one thing than to lose everything.” -
“One thing could be everything.”

— Cormac McCarthy, “Stella Maris”.

#StellaMaris #CormacMcCarthy

Today we commemorate the 75th anniversary of British Troops leaving Stella Maris Monastery in Haifa. Discover the inspiring tale of the Carmelites' empathy towards refugees in our latest blog post.
https://carmelitequotes.blog?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweepsmap-Ahora+Comenzamos

#StellaMaris #Haifa

這是我最近提交給競賽的設計。 提案是設計一面代表台灣的旗幟。

Here is a design I recently submitted to a competition. The proposal was to design a flag representing Taiwan.

詳情（中英文）：
Details (in Chinese and English):
https://atbeaune.blogspot.com/2023/05/taiwan-flag-design.html

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#flag #taiwan #formosa #design #art #vexillology
#taiwanflag #proposal #starofthesea #stellamaris #polaris #navigation #plum #sea-green #white #un #nationhood #democracy #humanrights #ideals #community #asia #asia-pacific #indo-pacific

這是我最近提交給競賽的設計。 提案是設計一面代表台灣的旗幟。

Here is a design I recently submitted to a competition. The proposal was to design a flag representing Taiwan.

詳情（中英文）：
Details (in Chinese and English):
https://atbeaune.blogspot.com/2023/05/taiwan-flag-design.html

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#flag #taiwan #formosa #design #art #vexillology
#taiwanflag #proposal #starofthesea #stellamaris #plum #sea-green #white #un #nationhood #democracy #humanrights #ideals #community #asia #asia-pacific #indo-pacific

"I want to belong but I dont."

#ThePassenger and #StellaMaris : the bottom line, a brilliant answer to a puzzle we are always excluded from.

As far as books go I felt nothing #CormacMccarty would write could complete with Blood Meridian. I was wrong.

I think the passenger works better in print. The nature of Stella Maris as a dialogue with a definitive performance make it feel like a transcript of the miracle of its audiobook.

Tragic heroic flaws incongruent with a reality with no patience.

Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger

#BookStack #CormacMcCarthy #ThePassenger #StellaMaris

“Sites that have been host to extraordinary suffering will eventually be either burned to the ground or turned into temples.” - Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

#cormacmccarthy #stellamaris

“I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I’m sorry to be that which I am? I’d very little to do with it.” - Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

#CormacMcCarty #StellaMaris

“I’m not really concerned about what other people believe. I dont consider them qualified to have an opinion.” - Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

#CormacMcCarthy #StellaMaris

“And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.” Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

#cormacmccarthy #stellamaris

“Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.” Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris
#cormacmccarthy #stellamaris

A moving and deeply inflective follow up to Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. The deep dive into Alicia’s psyche was a fascinating rumination on what exactly is reality? @bookstodon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNmDkYmFtwg&t=29s

#books #bookstodon #CormacMcCarthy #StellaMaris #BookToot #booktube #reading

If you read only one of his novels, this would cover all of them.

The themes oft ignored in the cities of the plain and the counselor are brought to fruition here and he need no others. Life and death in the middle of nothing we can know.
#stellamaris #CormacMcCarthy

Und vielleicht gilt es trotz der Kritik in 50 Jahren als Meisterwerk. #Bücher #Literatur #CormacMccarthy #DerPassagier #StellaMaris

https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/kultur/literatur/2173509-Schuldgefuehle-und-Quantenmechanik.html

Finished #reading #StellaMaris by #CormacMcCarthy & I’m slightly underwhelmed.

Avoiding spoilers, this is a companion piece to #ThePassenger. I’m not sure, however, that this contributes anything which was not hinted at there.

#StellaMaris doesn’t really have a narrative & despite its obvious ambition, it feels somewhat slight & insubstantial.

Regardless, there are provocative ideas here & passages of real beauty.

FWIW, I gave it 3/5 on #Goodreads.

#NowReading #Bookstodon #BookReview

Having finished #ThePassenger, I’m #NowReading #StellaMaris by the peerless #CormacMcCarthy.

‘… if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.’

#AmReading #Bookstodon

I’ve finished #reading my first book of 2023 - #ThePassenger by #CormacMcCarthy. One of the (unfair) criticisms of McCarthy is that he writes places better than people. This is very different from his previous stuff &, I think, confounds that critique.

The writing is, as one would expect, stark, but with a brutal beauty. I’ve rated this 5/5 on #Goodreads - but I want to read it again… But I’m going to tackle #StellaMaris first.

#amreading

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62821538

#NowReading #books #CormacMcCarthy #StellaMaris

Today’s book arrival - “Stella Maris” #books #reading #stellamaris #cormacmccarthy