David?

Yes.

Can we start by talking about Cormick McCarthy's Muse?

Oh, sure.

Let's do it.

Because we know who Cormick McCarthy's Muse is now.

Mm-hmm.

Thanks to a large and lush story in Vanity Fair.

There you go.

Him.

By Vincenzo Barney.

And let me tell you something.

The fun started right away with the headline.

Cormick McCarthy's Secret Muse breaks her silence after half a century,

colon, quote, I loved him.

He was my safety oh just just leaving a white open for me there

well i um i guess i come at this from a sort of particular point of view in that I found, it's not unusual, I guess, that you and I have these conversations where we say we were first alerted to some phenomenon by the reactions on Twitter.

But this is probably the first time where I think I was alerted to a big journalism story

by the very narrow pocket of Korn McCarthy Litkrit Twitter.

I just started reading a tweet and I was like, what on earth is this in response to?

And I was like, oh, wait, and somehow I read it and thinking this was just an actual Twitter reply about a fact that was well known that I hadn't known.

And then finally, I piece together that this was what it was.

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