OR, THE EVENING GRAYNESS IN THE WEST This reflection on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian was published last year in IM Issue 1 by IM–1776. This is its first and exclusive appearance online. – – – In English the word chore comes out of an older term encompassing in the broadest senses the small events that add up on Earth to the vast anonymizing sands in our mortal hourglass: turn, change, time, occasion, affair. Even in a world unsubmerged in vast dunes of silicon, unswept over by their infinite and invisible automatons, the reduction of our humanity by our chores to something subaltern is a menace we struggle even to contemplate absent some godly helpmeet. Within that digital world our unaided prospects dwindle further still. Overwhelmed with the elemental spectacle of our material resources animated with a degree of uninhibited autonomy reserved until maybe a decade ago to celestial or infernal…
Silicon Meridian
In English the word chore comes out of an older term encompassing in the broadest senses the small events that add up on Earth to the vast anonymizing sands in our mortal hourglass: turn, change, time, occasion, affair.
Lots more where that came from.
