THE ROAD (CORMAC MCCARTHY), HEARING IN THE BRAIN, SUBSONIC AND SUPERSONIC BULLETS

You aint got but two shells. Maybe just one. And they’ll hear the shot.

Yes they will. But you won’t.

How do you figure that?

Because the bullet travels faster than sound. It will be in your brain before you can hear it. To hear it you will need a frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus and you won’t have them anymore. They’ll just be soup.

I think he is right. The speed of sound is about 340 m/s. So if you are about 700 metres away from a shooting gun, you should heard the shot two seconds later. The bullet reaches you before its sound, if it´s supersonic. This is something that sound technicians must keep in mind.This video explains it very well:

NO ENTRY WITHOUT TROUSERS ( JUAN BONILLA) AND POETRY AS PURIFICATION OF REALITY

The poet works with advances which he spends before finishing anything, and he spends everything on tickets and transfers, because poetry is a journey to the unknown, is like the extraction of radium, where you get a gram of product after years of work.

I do agree. Poetry could be compared to any process of separating components, as Bonilla recreates what Maiakovski wanted to mean.Moreover, we may say that any poet distils reality and gets the poetic essence. The world would be the gross sample ( the gangue) and poetry would be the ore which you have to extract