"Goin to see Dubyedee, he said. No good son of a bitch... See my no good shitass brother...Dubyedee! ... Come out you old fart... Dubyedee! Come out, goddamnit." —Cormac McCarthy, Suttree Clearly, by any measure of common decency, litotes-maniac Cormac McCarthy is simply too kind. A sometime scholar, W.D. Clarke, a slow-reader and -lerner from Ontario, Canada, holds a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature from Warwick University, and has published on capitalism in the work of Thomas Pynchon. His second novel, She Sang to Them She Sang, was published by corona/samizdat in May, 2021. His first novel, White Mythology, was reissued in paperback by corona\samizdat in Q2 2022. Dubyedee welcomes GR-friend-requests from fellow readers with whom there has been some mutual interaction, always open that prospective friend who has a heart as well as a head, who values camaraderie, wit, badinage, and of course who just plain loves the continual back-and-forth about books and junk and stuff.