![]() No fewer than fifty-nine specific mules die in the book, plus dozens more that are alluded to in groups and bunches. ![]() The novel Blood Meridian (1985) establishes Cormac McCarthy as unchallenged king of literary mule carnage. What else? here is plaintive, existential, but also human, relatable. ![]() ![]() It’s a verbal tic not unlike the plentiful instances of They rode on to be found in Blood Meridian, and like that phrase, it serves as a linguistic placeholder that both moves the action of the novel and also advances one of its central philosophical themes. Versions of the phrase What else repeat throughout The Passenger, sometimes at the beginning of a sentence but more often than not as a two-word statement or question. ![]()
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