y and makes a cliche out of it. I submit, however, that the only time McCarthy actually "sounds" anything like Faulkner is in The Crossing, where his sentences tend to get away from him and unravel like a dropped string ball, in an incidental mimicry of Absalom, Absalom's torturously synthetic diction.At any rate, I certainly agree with one thing Christian the Heretic said -- that his "explanation"of the "similarity" between McCarthy's sentence construction and Faulkner's makes no sense at all. If I got this right, he seems to argue that Faulkner constructs his sentences the same way as McCarthy, except that he uses different types of words and punctuation. Uh...okay, I can live with that assertion, I suppose. But don’t look for it to surface in Chris’s forthcoming article in Southern Quarterly. Betcha he plays it safer there!...
