If you were award-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy, what would you tweet about?
Turns out, not rivers of blood, or apocalyptic wastelands. At least, not yet. Instead, the 78-year-old author has been tweeting mostly about Twitter itself. Is America’s last macho novelist turning into (gasp!) a Millenial?
An infant swimmer in the twitter ocean. Vigilant and raw and blithe.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
Already finger waggers spit envy and spite and doubt. On a beautiful day. This old stranger was just saying hello.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
I just pet a dog and it lapped my hand. A dog cant be duped. I love dogs.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
I feel like a boy today. Im only worn on the outside.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
Of course, the warm feelings could not last for long. Soon, McCarthy apparently received his first Twitter backlash:
Please stop. This phone is a toy I should have scorned. All I wished was decency.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
The know alls in the know. How can they know what no one but I and a friend only knows. The know alls know nowt. Bless them just the same.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
At breakfast I joined Twitter on a phone my son knows better than I. To denounce me is to hurt fine people. Bare that on your back.
— Cormac McCarthy (@CormacCMcCarthy) January 23, 2012
Let’s hope they haven’t scared Cormac off for good!
