Talk:Outer Dark

Objectivity

The laconic lyricism and stark beauty of McCarthy's style is again pronounced in this early novel that portends the coming of a great voice in American letters.

Come on! I was going to just delete this but decided to discuss. I know McCarthy is great but this doesn't belong on one of his wikipedia pages.

Appalachia?

The article states that the setting of the novel can be "assumed to be somewhere in Appalachia." I'm not so sure that that is a safe assumption; the South, yes, but Appalachia specifically, no. The reason I say this is because there is a passage in the novel that mentions alligators in the distance. I suppose there is the possibility of alligators existing somewhere in Appalachia (I don't actually know the full extent of their territory during the time period of the novel), but it seems unlikely. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.11.83.250 (talk) 05:37, 29 March 2007 (UTC).

The blurb of the 1994 Picador book states that it is set in Appalachia.

I believe that the general location might be deduced from the dialect of english spoken. For example, usage of the word "like" meaning "to lack" is pretty consistent among the characters and I wonder whether this marks it as Appalachia rather than elsewhere.--Jrm2007 (talk) 23:39, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Indeed, this use of "like" is mentioned in the wikipedia article: Appalachian_English--Jrm2007 (talk) 23:48, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Tones and Themes

I have deleted this section, because nothing in it constitutes either a tone or a theme, but is rather a bit of (ham-handed) plot summary. ~~