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Was Oprah just roaring him the whole time?

Every time I disparage the intelligence of the interviewer ability to create a narrative. It’s removed

Cormac is a fine writer but he's misusing subconscious. What he means is unconscious, which is accessible to conscious mind, whereas the unconscious is not. For example, you can't recall a word, and then ten minutes later you do, because it was available in the subconscious. Content in the unconscious is never accessible except perhaps in dreams in a symbolic form. Childhood traumas deeply repressed are not available, thus the difficulty faced by therapists when treating trouble patients.

She's the worst

To be fair, Oprah only said “poor” five times in this 4 and a half minute long video. And the subtle look of contempt on her entitled face when she questioned his writing about being exclusively from the perspective of men. Nothing more important than that…

Gifted writer, on par with Shakespeare IMHO, who also was poor in his early writing career. Both offered great insights and observations of the human condition. I hope the passage of time brings him greater recognition and appreciation. He deserves that.

I read The Road which I enjoyed. I haven't read any of his other books, but he has his own unique style of writing.

Oprah: “…Yeah…”

Amazing how many of these ideas are in The Passenger/Stella Maris. Almost verbatim. Goes to show how long he’s been asking these questions, only to find more questions. Rest in peace, Cormac.

So your a white misogamist basically? Let’s talk about how poor you were since I write books for my audience because I’m Oprah !!!! …. Where the hell does a woman fit into a story like the Road , or the judge finds a woman to settle down with & change his ways & becomes a father . She can’t come close to his orbit …

I’m surprised He’s even talking to Oprah on literature & life … toothpaste? Is that the best she can come up with ?

Great writer, but a tough interview. I saw him on Lawrence Krauss's podcast, and it was like pulling teeth. But I reiterate, great writer.

only a true gentleman would counter the offensive and uncultured stupidity displayed by the garland-destroying monkey on stage left and her incessant and unrelenting turdwave feminasal anal banality with his soft spoken answers and that FU posture.

I don’t see how the unconscious could be older than language, since language is, to my mind, essentially what defines us as Subjects. But of course, the two are _intimately_ related (parapraxis/slips, jokes, stutters, the signifying chain, etc).

The sunconscious thinks with symbols and communicates with them too.

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Oprah is so stupid, so vapid.

We miss you so much, Mr McCarthy

She has no idea even the language she’s lacking

Oprah ruined this Oprah interview

thats intense, man

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‘That brain thing’ Yes Oprah. The brain thing. 😒

Did Oprah just fail to understand the difference between the subconscious and GaWd?

Imagine wasting such a fantastic interview opportunity on frigging Oprah. America 🤦‍♂️

Wtf this woman is so annoying. Why was she so famous?

The way he described the subconscious is my exact thought process when I’ve tripped on mushrooms lol

Intellectuals should stay away from the big O.

After reading a lot of books about the lives of authors and musicians, I think Cormac's fascination with the subconscious and his implicit trust in its guiding direction is spot on. Nearly every author of some renown has said they have absolutely no idea where their stories come from, absent any real life experience or research that might serve as the basis for their novel. But for completely fictional works it really does seem like these ideas just suddenly hit them and they're never at a complete loss for where to take them. From beginning to end their subconscious is producing the material and they feel like scribes writing down words and ideas that don't entirely feel like they're their own thoughts. It's as if they're a medium for something else. Musicians seem to be the same way. Keith Richards, in his autobiography "Life" said something about how when he's writing his guitar riffs, it's almost as if they're emerging from some subconscious ether, and he just has to be determined enough to keep chasing this thing that he knows already exists somewhere else, but he has to bring it into existence here. Michael Jackson had the same spooky experience writing his music. It just comes from someplace beyond their own ability to think or feel, as if they've been bestowed with a gift from the beyond.

Cormorant McCarthy has a car under his chair.

👄 👅 👄 👅 get this man a water.

She was way over her head talking to an author of his weight.

Things that seem difficult for mundane people just seem so easy for those with true capability. He talks about writing as if it were making a sandwich. Which, to him, it probably was.

The subconscious endures. As well ask men what they think of stone.

Bro! He’s smart AF

“I was living in a shack in Tennessee and I ran out of tooth paste” haha classic

I’m reading The Road right now, it’s an incredible book I can’t put it down. His writing style is absolutely reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway’s minimalist, direct writing style with short simple sentences and to the point story telling. I’ll most likely be reading everything he wrote.

feel sorry for Cormac having to endure that interview

"The same thing that tells you what to write, tells you when to stop writing it." Fuck me.

I hope the sound engineer was fired. Lord

One thing I've learned is you need to step out of the way. The creativity is living within you.

I very much relate to what he said about work. I'm an artist who never wants to work for anyone else, and that means I don't. But I'm always working hard on my art, there's not a day that goes by where I'm not working on it, and somehow this has worked out for me because I will it to. It means I'm often very poor but I would never give up what I think is the right way for me to go. Maybe for others it's what's right, and they couldn't do what I do, they might not understand this but to me it doenst matter.

What an interesting man he was. RIP Cormac.

On my youtube site, SCOTT SHEPARD, I have recently posted an analysis in which I compare THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS to Robert Pirsig's ZEN AND THE ART of MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE and LILA. One of the key elements in my study is how the creation of the atom bomb influences Bobby and Alicia. CORMAC MCCARTHY & ROBERT PIRSIG, GENIUS, DEATH, & INSANITY. by Dr. Scott Shepard

On my youtube site, SCOTT SHEPARD, I have recently posted an analysis in which I compare THE PASSENGER and STELLA MARIS to Robert Pirsig's ZEN AND THE ART of MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE and LILA. If you like McCarthy's Border Trilogy, please watch my full length photoshop image production CORMAC MCCARTHY'S CITIES OF THE PLAIN, DR SCOTT SHEPARD. It's the whole story, presented in images, starring Matt Damon, once again, as John Grady Cole, and Woody Harrelson as Billy, and Oscar Jaenada as the evil Eduardo. It's on my youtube site.

When she shuts up , then we learn.

Such a wise and worldly perspective, exactly what made his writing so unique. I love how whenever I read a McCarthy novel there’s a fusion of primal feeling with worldly understanding. Even the books I didn’t particularly care for were clearly written by a master storyteller

I've learned so much from this comment section. Comments sections give a glimpse of the collective unconscious. Here, we see how threatened old white elitist academic men are by someone like Oprah. This is very much in the collective unconscious, but people will rarely voice it in the open.

RIP Sir..