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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:17:31 No.7301503 View Reply Report Delete

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>Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God, how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens.

Are there any other books written in a genre with prose of this beauty like McCarthys Blood Meridian?

The closest I can think of is Book of the New Sun.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:21:18 No.7301505 Report Delete

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>>7301503
Blood Meridian is such a subversion of the western that it hardly even qualifies as one. It dismantles nearly every trope within the western genre, while also destroying the efficacy of good against evil.

What a horrifying and beautiful book. The Judge is perhaps the most terrifying character I've ever encountered in fiction to boot.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:22:19 No.7301506 Report Delete

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>>7301505
the idea of the efficacy of good against evil*

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:30:00 No.7301513 Report Delete

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>written in a genre

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 05:39:09 No.7301523 Report Delete

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>>7301505

Would you mind elaborating on that? I'm interested to hear how he does all that.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 07:53:41 No.7301692 Report Delete

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Bump for this.
The gangs journey through the mountain storm is by far my favorite chapter.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 08:32:56 No.7301759 Report Delete

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>>7301692
Great chapter, I personally enjoyed the part where The Judge helps the gang make the gunpowder by scratch on the volcanoe to fight off the Indians.

Also, I've mulled on this for the longest time and can't seem to make a coherent reason for it: why is the only act of mercy on the part of the Judge directed towards the Idiot? How much does it have to do with the recurring tarot motifs (Fool/Judgement)?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:22:55 No.7302676 Report Delete

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>>7301759
I dont know if he inteded to do that from the beginning but my interpretation of the ending scenes is that Judge made people believe that the ex-priest is the Idiot and the actual idiot is an educated individual

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:24:47 No.7302679 Report Delete

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Moby Dick.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:25:52 No.7302683 Report Delete

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>>7301503
Titus Groan

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 13:26:06 No.7302684 Report Delete

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christ read some more books fam

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:27:01 No.7303091 Report Delete

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>>7302676
Thats pretty interesting; do you think you can expand on that?

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:30:35 No.7303101 Report Delete

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Remember, you don't like Blood Meridian for its prose, you like it for its themes, and that's because you're a manchild.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:34:18 No.7303116 Report Delete

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>>7301503
Chandler would crinkle that into a ball and wipe his ass with that if he were alive.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 15:45:16 No.7303156 Report Delete

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>>7303101
i like both a lot

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 16:54:45 No.7303412 Report Delete

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>>7301505
Thank you old man. The western genre has been subverted for decades, arguably every since its inception. Blood Meridian was far from groundbreaking in that regard.

You're either born before 1980 or you're just parroting what old assed critics and professors say.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 17:13:15 No.7303456 Report Delete

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Check out some of Raymond Chandler's stuff

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