“McCarthy is clunky now? The best prose stylist America has ever produced is clunky? Are all writers who bend the rules of grammar and punctuation clunky? Are you fucking illiterate?

Do you understand what language is? That the rules are made up? That they change over time due to technological, cultural, and economic forces? Are we so devoid of culture that the New York Times, the largest print media company in the world, doesn’t understand what style is?

Who needs transcendent explorations on the nature of Being, of our common humanity, of what it’s like to live a finite existence in a seemingly infinite cosmos, when we have the machines to think for us? As well ask men what they think of stone.”