Annual Cormac McCarthy Preview from a Flood Aggie Blog. Sorry if luked but I have thing for Cormac McCarthy stuff.
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10) Kansas: The judge smiled, his bulk massive and naked and hairless in the firelight.
Men are born for games, he declaimed. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. A player's body. A boy's esteem. My career. Only the last a sufficient stake to make the game of sport one worthy of attention.
The judge searched out the circle for disputants.
What about love? asked Heaps. The love of the game?
A fool's notion. Love is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. History subverts it at every turn. You play this game for glory. My glory. You joined me because I am the ultimate arbitrator of what is right and wrong. A universe of my own creation I have made on the field. No godserver but a god myself.
Goodman studied the judge. You're crazy, Weis. Crazy at last.
The judge rose up smiling and gathered him in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh and without a word snapped Ben Goodman's neck in two.
