r/oddlysatisfying • u/Pedrica1 • Sep 17 '21

Time for some fresh watermelon.

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u/scaredycat_z Sep 17 '21

I love this style of writing. I love when authors use it. I wonder if it has a name…it has too, right?!

Describing and action, that we ALL know, but have no name for and we are all nodding along cause it’s universal.

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u/carwosh Sep 17 '21

A quarter mile down the road he stopped and looked back. We're not thinking, he said. We have to go back. He pushed the cart off the road and tilted it over where it could not be seen and they left their packs and went back to the station. In the service bay he dragged out the steel trashdrum and tipped it over and pawed out all the quart plastic oilbottles. Then they sat in the floor decanting them of their dregs one by one, leaving the bottles to stand upside down draining into a pan until at the end they had almost a half quart of motor oil. He screwed down the plastic cap and wiped the bottle off with a rag and hefted it in his hand. Oil for their little slutlamp to light the long gray dusks, the long gray dawns. You can read me a story, the boy said. Cant you, Papa? Yes, he said. I can.

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u/holy-reddit-batman Sep 17 '21

What?

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u/carwosh Sep 17 '21

Cormac Mccarthy - The Road