accidents because the accident provides the observer with a close encounter without being directly involved. Similarly people go and watch tragedies, such as ‘Romeo and Juliet’, despite already knowing the outcome. One could argue that Conrad and McCarthy’s novels contain these same qualities. McCarthy once said, “nobody want to be here and nobody wants to leave” and “you forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget”; which is consistent with people being horrified yet…
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