The writer James Lee Burke is an enigma to me

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” Tom Waits (via quotemadness)

The writer James Lee Burke is an enigma to me. He is fascinated (obsessed?) with violence and very talented in portraying the deepest kind of violence and threats of violence in every book he writes yet his social philosophy is the deepest kind of bleeding heart modern liberalism. Something is wrong with that picture, something must be phony, like playing up to the liberal publishing powers by showing hatred for the southern good old boys he always writes about, or maybe it's just sick, like a cuckold getting off on violent contradictions. Modern liberalism has a way of creating philosophically messed up though talented artists.