“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - Cormac McCarthy This line from Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men treats misfortune

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” - Cormac McCarthy This line from Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men treats misfortune as a kind of hidden protection. Spoken by Ellis, a retired lawman who has known real loss, it rests on a simple idea: people see only so fa…