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unlike the rest of my book club im quite intrigued…

"It knocked him plum out of his boots. That cable did when it busted. Sounded like a cannon load of cats goin by."

I said i was gonna read 50 pages, then i said ok 100, now i feel like doing 150...

Washing and Drinking from a water bucket, "leaning his mouth into the meniscal calm of it"

I think we're stretching the vocabulary a bit. 🙄
McCarthy I've noticed tends to use obscure words ineffectually, or even sometimes inappropriately.