This morning, a hoax Twitter account erroneously proclaimed that 82-year-old, Pulitzer-winning author Cormac McCarthy had perished.
USA Today picked up the news, which spread on Twitter before being thoroughly debunked.
The Internet’s paroxysm of relief was perfect for the morbidly prolific author of The Road, Country for Old Men, Suttree, Child of God and other blood- and irony-bathed works of literary brilliance.
So we’ll conclude as Blood Meridian does: “He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Keep on dancing, Mr. McCarthy.