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Is the film APOCALYPSE NOW,,,, based on this book BLOOD MERIIDAN ,,,,,, comments much appreciated 😂

Don't interpose the interrorgative 'right?' at the end of each sentence. It's really annoying. Right?

Having just finished the novel, I must say it's the one that fits the internet stereotype of Cormac McCarthy perfectly: a bunch of monosyllabic idiots bumbled around a beautifully described wasteland until they all come to bad ends, featuring baby canabalism. I think it's interesting in your discussions with the class, you only the very beginning and very end of the book, and barely talk about any of the vignettes that comprise most of The Outer Dark.

Well that was a waste of time. A couple of minutes drawn and dramaticized just to tell you information anyone whose read the novel understands.

I had bought blood meridian about a year ago but didn't dare to read it. I never felt "ready" for it. Then, on a vacation in May this year, I picked up "The Road" in a book shop; it was the only decent English book they had. Definitely not a holiday-pageturner for the beach, but I was intrigued. Now I felt ready for Blood Meridian, read it and was deeply impressed. Your lectures deepen my understanding and I want to read it again. And then again. Thanks for putting them online!

This one was absolute fire. Re-hearing passages, it’s so interesting to me that the Judge says “perhaps you have seen this place in a dream. That you would die here.” I didn’t remember the line, but this entire section, being pursued through the desert by the Judge, always felt like a dream sequence to me. Like those nightmares where you can’t quite see the monster chasing you but you’re terrified all the same. Thank you for sharing these! Excited for Part 6!!!

I’ve read this book too many times, but I see the shift from members of the gang to intense tension after the ferry as the loss of mob mentality. People do horrible things as a group (natzie Germans/linch mobs /riots/tribal genocide) but once the group fractures things change, It becomes individuals committing atrocities. Only once the group fractured from the outside are they able to see the horror. The effect of a group has the ability to push people to insanely violent ends but once the group is fractured members decry the violence.

So when Cormac says "and the night does not end" does he mean that evil will endure as long as there are beings or men/people who are like Judge that are a king of counterfit? And is counterfit and the cold forger a metaphor for the false? In relation to the truth of the world?

I’ve listened to a lot of people discuss this novel. I think your interpretation and discussion is the most compelling one I’ve heard. Thank you professor.

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I actually put this book down about half way through last year because I thought it was overly gratuitous, but it had been sitting at the back of my mind for a while. This series of lectures actually convinced me to go back & reread from the beginning & I'm glad I did & hearing other interpretations of the words helped & I thank you & your students for that 😊

I really never saw The Kid as Cormac’s representation of Chamberlain. I always thought that The Veteran, Chambers, was CM’s nod at Chaimberlain 🤔

"Grief is a monster." Great stuff, thanks for posting.

Instantly subscribed. So nice to actually get a thoughtful discussion on Blood Meridian instead of cringey bullshit.

The novel is so surreal, it's almost magic realism at times and I can't think of a modern director who could capture that strangeness. It'll take a damn sight more than some time lapse shots of the sun, a red colour theme and some lens flare to make the landscape feel like it does in the novel. I feel that's what a live action director would do and expect it to work.

I have read and reread this novel. And I listen to some of the audio book every day.. a great work of art

A wise man might suggest the very reason you see 'character building' labour as nothing but a way to develop calluses is a sign you have developed the aforementioned 'character'! ;)

if it were animated it should be 2D animated, which basically doesnt exist in america anywhere. so I think an anime would be cool

_Outer Dark_ is certainly one of my most favorite novels by McCarthy. I've thought about this for some time and I have to put _All the Pretty Horses_ first, followed by _Outer Dark_ then _The Road_ and then _Blood Meridian_ . *_SPOILERS BELOW_* I have to ask anyone who has read the novel what they think the actual sin is that is the cause of the Purgatorial trek of Culla and Rinthy. I am not fully convinced, nor does the narrations specifically state that the baby in the novel is due to Culla and Rinthy having an incestuous relationship. A careful reading would find that the father of these two--one described clearly as a man, and the other as a younger girl--is absent, however aspects of his existence lingers in the beginning of the novel. One of which is a broken shotgun. The shotgun is a critical concept as it is Promethean in nature, as well as representative of the hunter, the protector, the provider. The weapon is broken and Culla is unable to fix it. Not having any knowledge of the weapon's upkeep provides a clue to the state Culla finds himself in at the start of the novel. Could he have used this weapon to kill the now absent father? Did the father rape the daughter? What is the initial sin that leads to the sequence of transgressions, the ill-fated plight of Culla who is inducted, courted, by the unholy Trinity? I argue that the initial sin is the failing of the father in teaching Culla any skills, leaving him useless, and a blight and burden on normal society. He isn't viable for marriage without skills and without a job. He can't raise his sister's child, so he tries to sacrifice the baby to nature, the universe, yet even in this he is a failure. He's so disastrous, he can't stand being spoken to in a critical way that he steals from his initial employer. This theft leads to the squire's murder. He steals clothes from a dead man later and is chased from wherever he goes. In contrast, Rinthy is welcome as she is a symbol of fertility, her use is in propagation, where as Culla's use is lacking, and he instead preys in subtle, thieving ways on the towns he passes through. He eats the unholy meat, perhaps the flesh of the child, or of some hapless person, and he is forced to relinquish the boots he is unworthy to wear, and is instead forced to wear the boots of the fool, boots wired closed, almost like shackles. He is so void of scruples, and humane reflex, he cannot reach for someone swept away by a stampede of swine. Nor is he cognizant enough to warn a blind man of his pending danger, even when the thought naturally occurs to him. His constant blunders lead to the murder of the tinkerer, an unskilled tradesman in his own right, and his ultimate state as a pariah from all that world that is civilized, incarcerating him to a land of darkness, to the outer darkness itself. I argue that the outer darkness is the physical representation of the ignorance of one's existence if they are untrained, illiterate, unskilled, but instead a blundering, blind parasite on society. The original sin is not the implied incest, but instead the failing of the father to teach his son. A father is to pass the fire to the son, and the son is to bear that flame long after the father's passing. The Promethean symbol is impotent. All fire is commanded then by the leader of the unholy Trinity, and therefore, he is but a guest at its side, a fool, bound to stare hopelessly, fecklessly into its unwieldy light, ignorant to its mastery and the industry from its use. In _No Country for Old Men_ Ed Tom laments that 18 year olds are too stupid and untrained, too unmotivated to get out and make something of themselves as he recollects that by 18 men of his time were married, working and starting a family. The Man from _The Road_ and Llewellyn of _No Country_ are the quintessential "skilled men." John Grady Cole is perhaps his most elegant of skilled men in that his mastery is of horses--the horse long considered the symbol of knighthood, of chivalry, of excellence, and of course one of the most beautiful animals on earth (in my opinion). The Kid, of _Blood Meridian_ , in contrast, is unskilled, illiterate, and only capable of killing as he is a crackshot--his fate is to end up raped, his soul consumed by the Judge. You see, in McCarthy's entire corpus of work, he exalts skill above all things. It's as if he is contending with Nietzsche's ubermensch--dark versions of which are found in Judge Holden and Anton Chigurh--and arguing that the skilled man, who works his arts through the love of others, is the greatest representation of Man. Without it, a person is damned to barbarism, to cannibalism, damned to walk in line with the unholy Trinity, to dwell ceaseless in the outer dark.

I just finished re-reading this, first time since I was a kid and I LOVED this lecture! Thank you for uploading. Can’t wait to dive into the rest!

Rinthy is 19 if I remember correctly. She mentions it in somewhere in the middle of the book. I think to the old lady.

What an unpleasant lecture

love these! thank you! BUT "texas had a serious comanche problem" is an incredible thing to say. it's like saying "hawaii had a serious hawaiians problem".

This was a great explanation.

The judge is super natural, he is either the devil or a demon. He is not a men. He will never die

Currently reading Outer Dark, cannot wait to listen to this.

Great stuff, thank you for posting! 🇮🇪

I grew up on a ranch and built miles and miles of fence as a teen. I knew exactly what the epilogue was describing and was confused when other people were confused by it.

I'm convinced there's little reason to believe The Judge is actually materially present in this final scene.

“raping” “murder” and then goes this land WAS settled! it supported a beautiful population of peaceful comanche

Currently reading The Orchid Keeper. Can't wait to get to Suttree to listen to this!

The sheer amount of ads on these lectures makes them very difficult to follow

That's where I believe anime would have advantage in animated version would have an advantage over live action think berserk anime has a history of dark and think berserk anime has a history of dark current history of dealing with dark subject way better than Western media has and do it differently Black lagoon Black lagoon I forgot the other one

Animated was a good idea I love these character designs it would be good to be an anime one person gives opinion anime test be awful

The heathen is the judge and the clemency is when the kid spared his life. The kid choose not the money nor the kill when it came to the judge at that watering hole. That is against the way of the judge’s philosophy of human violence and Holden must set to right this break in rules of the game of war.

Dont try and talk like a cowboy bruh

Mountains of books is pretty dope as well

Listening to this makes me miss class discussions on literature

Dude, look at this image!

I always thought the priest like dead wieght

¡Cuatro de Copas! ¡Cuatro de Copas!

Really fascinating lectures, I'm glad I stumbled on these! One thing that struck me was, and I might've heard it wrong, but did you say you won't have tarot in your house because of Satan? I was just confused because I had never heard that connection before.

HOLY crap these recent comments are oddly hateful... Everyone has their opinions hahaha. Anyways, I loved the narration it helps get into the story and the beginning was great where you provided a much needed context AND showed that the Natives were just as brutal. Also the white jokes are fun hahaha what the f**k are these people complaining about!!! Thanks for sharing I'll definitely be listening to the rest of the lectures for some reason this book makes me want to go back to college courses and have an hour long discussion on one chapter, I miss it!

Excellent video, one of the better ones I’ve seen on this book

“Anything that exists in this world without my knowledge, does so without my consent.” The Judge

Small hands? Didn’t they say the girl had huge hand prints on her?!