He thought if he lived long enough the world at last would all be lost. Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory.
In "The Road," Cormac McCarthy captures the essence of despair and the inevitability of loss. The protagonist grapples with a profound sense of futility as he reflects on the decaying world around him. He perceives existence as a gradual march toward oblivion, where memories and the essence of life slowly dissipate like the remnants of a dying light.
This sentiment echoes the struggle of a blind individual navigating a world that is fading from sight. The quote illustrates a chilling sense of hopelessness, suggesting that the longer one survives, the more they witness the erosion of what once was, yet the yearning to remember and hold on persists amidst the bleakness.
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