“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from
birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a
medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor
precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch
in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”
This week's book is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and we'll be meeting at The Didsbury on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
As we're coming to the end of our reading list, we'll be pitching books at the meeting. You may like to consider the unread books list and the unreadable books list.