After the absence from the scene, books to review, or not. "There are no whites. There are no blacks. People of color. There is none of this. Deep down in the mine, where the gold is, there is none of this. There is only the pure vein. That eternal thing. Which you believe does not exist. The thing that keeps people rooted to the ground when the Sunset Limited passes by" (C. McCarthy, Sunset Limited, Einaudi, Torino, 2008, p. 77).