Yeah see toward the end of the link I left. The passage you quoted is explicitly invoked.
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Ok, will definitely have to read this now.
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The implement is almost certainly an allusion to Milton, and the fire is obviously Promethean, but links back to the 2nd most obscure passage in the novel (the kid's fever dream) about the cold forger.
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I always took it as the subsequent taming of the west with nice homes with white picket fences covering up and forgetting the bloodshed and horror underneath.
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There's more work to be done here though (I think): "smite once, and smite no more" in Milton, but in McCarthy the implement is to be used in countless succession as if in "verification of a principle". (McCarthy is inexhaustible, no doubt.)
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For anyone still thinking about this, perhaps another intratextual clue:pic.twitter.com/RvfvapLBGG
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CM confirmed accelerationist.
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