San Moritz, Switzerland (AP). The world's close-knit literary-genius community today hummed with the news that Pulitzer-prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy had completed three successful descents of the Cresta Run, arguably the world's most famous toboggan track, in pursuit of a rolling can of corned beef. At a hastily arranged news-conference, a spokesperson for McCarthy explained that the Rhode Island writer was researching his next novel,
The Tilt, which will be set in a post-apocalyptic world frozen solid and tilted at 45° by a mysterious, never-explained cataclysm, leaving the two chief protagonists, an unnamed dual mother-and-daughter pair, to ride a toboggan down an endless series of ice-runs in pursuit of rolling cans of corned beef, baked beans, carrots, etc, while fending off the attacks of feral scavengers, catamite-collectors, infant-incinerators, et al. McCarthy himself then fielded questions from the floor in French, English, and Romansh. On being asked whether the novel would be another step towards his long-anticipated Nobel Prize for Literature, McCarthy blinked enigmatically and declined to comment. On being asked how, with a tenth of Clark Ashton Smith's talent, he felt about being much more than ten times as successful, he scratched enigmatically and said:
"Okay."
One being pressed on the point, he added:
"Okay."
On being pressed further, he further added:
"0kay."
On that controversial note, the news-conference ended.
“The true independent is he who dwells detached and remote from the little herds as well as from the big herd. Affiliating with no group or cabal of mice or monkeys, he is of course universally suspect.†—
The Black Book of Gore Vidal.
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