03/11/2006 9:12:25 AM PST
· 10 of 172 Burn24
to SheLion; igottabenutz
I guess it was the "Jenkins Act" - some type of subpoena to the supplier - esmokes.com - to provide the purchasers name, address, and where they had the cigarettes delivered. You need to give them all this info when you submit your credit card. Esmokes won't answer my email. But NJ has all my info now, and full details of my order, too. So I guess I'm nailed here - funny part is, my order was only $100 but the taxes are $238. This is so creepy, coming out of the blue like that after 3 years.
Hi, SheLion. Sometime in 2003-2004 I bought cigarettes online from esmokes, and had them shipped to a friend's house in NJ, where I picked them up. Yesterday I got a tax bill from NJ Treasury for $238 in taxes! Have you ever heard of this? Do I have to pay it?
02/26/2005 6:39:19 PM PST
· 30 of 94 Burn24
to sandalwood
We were discussing these on the other thread, and someone called Cormac McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" a quest novel, but it's really not. It's Literature, big L. Try it, you'll never be the same.
All the Pretty Horses The Crossing City of the Plain = trilogy.
Did you also take him as a representation of Satan, of evil in the world? Just feeling my way here - I'm no expert,but that's how it seemed. And the Kid - his life and experiences are so awful, but he just survives, doesn't seem to learn anything or change - was that meant to be redemptive power? Or is our McCarthy getting a little old and twisted?
Well, The Border Triology are tales of damnation and redemption, freedom, individualism, and love. Blood Meridien I guess is the same but the author actually puts in a devil figure and the brutality is more shocking - apparently the book is based on historical events, too. But I've never read anything like this guy McCarthy, for beauty of language and for moral power. Better than the ancient Greeks.
I'm now reading "Blood Meridian" and am finding it somewhat horrifying - have just covered the Indian massacre. But I can't put it down. Somehow it's clean in its brutality.
"Cities of the Plain" is actually the name of the trilogy, of which I think "All the Pretty Horses" was the best. Strange that I finally discovered McCarthy, years after my BA in English! The thing about this trilogy that absolutely floored me, though, is his capture of the American (post) frontier in spare and beautiful language, which sends the spirit soaring.