# Mr. Gray

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Podcast: [Psyche](https://stenobird.com/podcast/psyche-5592447)
Published: 2026-06-19T13:26:32+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode, I take a short detour from All the Pretty Horses into Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited , the HBO film adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones. I reflect on Professor White and Mr. Black, despair and faith, nihilism and sacred obligation, and why I find myself living somewhere between them as “Mr. Gray” — drawn to the dark clarity of pessimistic philosophy, but still unable to escape the sacred call to be there for another human being.

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