"The Road" Cormac McCarthy 
I think that if this was written & read in the 60s it might have been different for me
By 2006 even i knew Bach & Glass
Serling  & Robbe-Grillet
Warhol & 99 bottles of beer on the wall
The Cormac can write!
this was tedious! ... your students were born too late Joe... ?
"Stella Maris" is my kinda engaging Light
...it's us