Your First Betrayal is Yourself

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”
-Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy is an American, Pulitzer winning author. You probably would recognize his work based on the film adaptations of his books No Country for Old Men and The Road.

McCarthy’s writing is one of a kind. His literature is nihilistic, often violent, and lacking punctuation. He would swap commas for and’s, thought a semi colon was pure idiocy, and refused to use quotation marks for any dialogue. He did all of this while writing on an Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter he first got in the 1960’s.

Don’t use semi colons.

Use outdated technology.

Be true to your bizarre self.