Knoxville: Where Schwarzenbach, McCarthy, and Buddy and the Huddle ‘Meet’ Across Time*
McCARTHY, Suttree: “He walked along Gay Street, pausing by
storewindows, fine goods kept in glass. A police cruiser passed slowly.
He moved on, from out of his eyecorner watching them watch.”
“He’d come from the dwellingstreets of whites to 
those of blacks and
no gray middle folk did he see.”
“This city constructed on no known paradigm, a mongrel architecture
reading back through the works of man in a brief delineation of the
aberrant disordered and mad.”
“Suttree going past rows of derelict trucks piled with produce and
flowers, an atmosphere rank with country commerce, a reek of
farmgoods in the air tending off into a light surmise of putrification
and decay.”
*NOTE: Panels Eight, Nine, and Ten are meant to be viewed together, as an example of the similar impressions had by Schwarzenbach and McCarthy.
Knoxville: Where Schwarzenbach, McCarthy, and Buddy and the Huddle ‘Meet’ Across Time*
McCARTHY, Suttree: “He walked along Gay Street, pausing by
storewindows, fine goods kept in glass. A police cruiser passed slowly.
He moved on, from out of his eyecorner watching them watch.”
“He’d come from the dwellingstreets of whites to those of blacks and no gray middle folk did he see.”
“This city constructed on no known paradigm, a mongrel architecture
reading back through the works of man in a brief delineation of the
aberrant disordered and mad.”
“Suttree going past rows of derelict trucks piled with produce and
flowers, an atmosphere rank with country commerce, a reek of
farmgoods in the air tending off into a light surmise of putrification
and decay.”
*NOTE: Panels Eight, Nine, and Ten are meant to be viewed together, as an example of the similar impressions had by Schwarzenbach and McCarthy.
...the journey seems to me less an adventure and a foray into unusual realms than a concentrated likeness of our existence: residents of a city, citizens of country, beholden to a class or a social circle...
— Annemarie Schwarzenbach —