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Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer
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A 2017 documentary filmed at the Santa Fe Institute in which novelist Cormac McCarthy talks with SFI's David Krakauer. They discuss isolation, mathematics, character and the nature of the unconscious.
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It is one of the few long, candid interviews with the famously reclusive McCarthy, and commenters share it whenever he comes up.
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Thanks for posting, he was a really interesting guy. This is my favourite interview with him so I will take this post as an excuse to share it. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗God I will miss his writing. I finished (and adored) The Passenger a few weeks ago. Rest In Piece. This is a nice interview; [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Worth a watch if you're interested in McCarthy: [VIDEO] The gist is that he liked smart people. He was good friends with Murray Gell-Mann and others at The Santa Fe Institute. I absolutely think he "liked science," I don't think he was cynical about it, though I do see where you could pick that up in his writing. According to Gell-Mann, McCarthy knew a lot about 20th century physics...not in terms of math but in a "history of ideas" sense, i.e. where major physicists stood on various questions.
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