The apocalyptic event that destroys the world of The Road is never identified. Whatever it is happens years before the book opens. McCarthy’s description of the moment it happens, as recalled in flashback by the main character, is a marvel of economy: “The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions.” A few sentences later: “A dull rose glow in the windowglass.” That’s it.

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I’m Scott David Herman, I’m an American living in Canada, and I’ve been running erasing.org since 1999.

The expatriate life is very glamorous. I live and work on the fifth floor of a mid-rise glass-and-concrete ant farm situated in the abandoned ruins of downtown Hamilton, that legendary city many call the most beautiful smoke-spewing slag heap in all of Southern Ontario.

I enjoy staring into open books, mentally rotating Shakespeare’s skeleton, stacking objects in my quote-unquote office, and chopping at the Parnassian permafrost in the company of my wife Laura.

You can email me at scott at erasing.org.