Just quoting chunks of other people's writing is not 'good practice' on a respectable blog, after all, it's the job of the blogger to do the writing for good or ill - and I heard that! But I am a subscriber to In Pursuit of Copiousness, a site that sends out quotations from past and present literature. To be honest, most of the quotes leave me untouched but today's is from 'No Country for Old Men' by Cormac McCarthy. One of my top favourite films and I like McCarthy's writing despite his idiosyncratic style. This, I assume is the grizzled old sheriff played superbly in the film by Tommy Lee Jones:
“Here a year or two back me and Loretta went to a conference in Corpus Christi and I got set next to this woman, she was the wife of somebody or other. And she kept talkin about the right wing this and the right wing that. I aint even sure what she meant by it. The people I know are mostly just common people. Common as dirt, as the sayin goes. I told her that and she looked at me funny. She thought I was sayin somethin bad about em, but of course that’s a high compliment in my part of the world. She kept on, kept on. Finally told me, said: I dont like the way this country is headed. I want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way this country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what she’ll be able to have an abortion. I’m goin to say that not only will she be able to have an abortion, she’ll be able to have you put to sleep. Which pretty much ended the conversation.”
– Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (pp. 196-197)
In a nutshell!
Well now we know why the abortionists are so keen on abortion in the USA! They are selling on the bits of babies. They even abort babies so as to safeguard the bits they want to sell. You will notice that I don't call them foetus.
Posted by: backofanenvelope | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 10:28
"Foetuses?" "Foetii?" Oh for a classical education like what our genial host's got!
Posted by: Oswald Thake | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 11:09
Spelling, Thake, spelling! '... like wot our genial host ...'. A hundred lines on my desk before lunch!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 11:16
+1
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Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 12:20
I loved the book, but I don't remember that quote! It's terrific. Thanks for passing it along.
Did the rest of you see the video that BOE is talking about?
Posted by: Dom | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 14:50
I didn't see it, Dom, but I read about it and that was enough to make me feel sick!
Posted by: David Duff | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 16:54
Dom you might recall "we here on D&N" had an idea what *the procedures* was like - just not The Why. (You Dom especially as I recall, you sent David the initial link that led David to issue positively a Warning: Do Not Proceed If You Had Breakfast!)
Which I will Repeat. D&N Regulars might just be advised to rather, read Michelle Malkin's words - second link:
http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2013/04/dont-read-this-if-you-have-just-had-dinner.html
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_michelle_malkin/the_wine_sipping_butchers_of_planned_parenthood
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 15 July 2015 at 17:10