June 28th, 2012 / 12:10 pm
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What was Blood Meridian about again?

23 Comments

  1. June 28th, 2012 / 12:16 pm Erik Stinson—

      wasn’t there a golden compass with a dark past? 

  2. June 28th, 2012 / 12:31 pm bartleby_taco—

      i just read it a month or two ago its like lord of the rings except instead of faeries and stuff you have entrails

  3. June 28th, 2012 / 12:50 pm David Fishkind—

      a dancing bear and a guy

  4. June 28th, 2012 / 1:55 pm A D Jameson—

      That’s the Chronicles of Narnia

  5. June 28th, 2012 / 1:56 pm A D Jameson—

      Matt Damon is in it, and they find a bottle of Coke at some point.

  6. June 28th, 2012 / 2:30 pm tyler lebens—

      have you seen Air Bud? It’s not like Blood Meridian, I’m just curious.

  7. June 28th, 2012 / 2:42 pm William Owen—

      Love.

  8. June 28th, 2012 / 3:38 pm Matthew Simmons—
  9. June 28th, 2012 / 3:45 pm j orloski—

      It’s about 300 pages. Get on it.

  10. June 28th, 2012 / 5:20 pm Tyler Crumrine—

      Here come the Judge.

  11. June 28th, 2012 / 6:36 pm Evan Hatch—

      In my opinion, the impossibility of disentangling our violent and savage nature from the human condition, which is something that McCarthy has explicitly indicated his belief in.

  12. June 28th, 2012 / 6:58 pm Anonymous—

      How seducing and convincing illusions / violence / nihilism are. The enduring fact that these things are not the truth.

  13. June 28th, 2012 / 7:00 pm Trey—

      I just want to assure everyone that there *is* a joke going on here and, as a person who has read Blood Meridian, I *do* get it

  14. June 29th, 2012 / 1:19 am Spenser Davis—

      Horses and shit 

  15. June 29th, 2012 / 1:51 am Tom Beshear—

      Drowning a guy in an outhouse.

  16. June 29th, 2012 / 5:53 am Craig Ronald Marchinkoski—

      After two days in the desert sun 
      My skin began to turn red 
      After three days in the desert fun 
      I was looking at a river bed 
      And the story it told of a river that flowed 
      Made me sad to think it was dead

  17. June 29th, 2012 / 8:56 am Trey—

      no fucking way was it drowning

  18. June 29th, 2012 / 10:02 am O—

      Blood Meridian is about Matt Dillon getting a hummer from Diane Lane on the set of Rumble Fish. If you think it’s about anything else you have severely misread the book.

  19. June 29th, 2012 / 12:50 pm Jonny Ross—

      the difficulty of finding a good barber in pre-industrialized times

  20. June 29th, 2012 / 10:24 pm reynard—

      it is about judgement

  21. June 30th, 2012 / 3:38 am deadgod—

      In common is the god of war, and he kills the killer.

      Iliad 18.309

      Let him exert himself, for truly Ares is common to [all] people.

      Archilochus fr. 38 (D)

      War is father of all and king of all, and these he displays as gods and these, people, and these he makes slaves and these, free.

      Heraclitus fr. 53 (D)

  22. June 30th, 2012 / 1:11 pm Anonymous—

      I could be very wrong about this but I think I recall a horse with down syndrome in this book.

  23. June 30th, 2012 / 1:42 pm deadgod—

      Then he opened the rough board door of the jakes and stepped in.

      The judge was seated upon the closet.  He was naked and he rose up smiling and gathered him in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh and shot the wooden barlatch home behind him.

      Except for the reactions of two of the three men who later go to that toilet after the bolt is unlocked (and the judge has left?) – “I wouldnt go in there if I was you[.]”; “Good God almighty[.]” – , that’s it.

      I thought when I first read the book, and still sort of suppose, that the judge had smothered the ‘kid’ in his embrace.  But he could’ve drowned him in pissy shit, I guess, or gnashed his throat open, or vnseam’d him from the Naue toth’ Chops.  (It’s remotely possible that the judge is still doing something to the kid or the kid’s corpse when the other men go out to relieve themselves.)

      Whatever happened to the ‘kid’, it’d have to be something that would horrify these hardened wild-West guys, no?  Choked with his own entrails, flayed, brain drawn out his nose, … –what would alarm these guys??

      Very effective for a book tirelessly specific about gore to leave this detail open.