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Where is the gun mentioned in the encounter at the bar?

Euyh judge is damn gay😂

I was thinking the dance was a metaphor for an honorable death and a insignificant death. I just finished the book so maybe I’m a bit short sighted but that’s what I was thinking

Does the kid die in the audible version? I don’t remember that

this book is hard to read -literally- because of the prose

Homie is digging holes with a post hole digger to place a fence thus ending the freedom and violence of the region

The critic is an effete fop. That's why he needs to be spoonfed.

The inference is more horrifying than being told.

I truly feel like the judge is Satan

I'd say the music choice for this video is on spot

Young Guns, scene with Buckshot Roberts, before shooting, Roberts says, "Let's dance!" It must have been a common enough expression to mean "fight."

I can’t watch this video with that fucking music

That background music really balances out the dark themes this video reflects on

Then you have another interpretation. That the judge was never really there in the last chapters, it was a byproduct of the man’s scarred mind, he stood alone in the bar, muttering to himself for others, arguing with the edge of his conscience within. The judge does not really do anything to the man besides luring him to do something terrible to the girl who owns the bear. The man peeing outside the jakes and warning the others not to go inside in no one but the man himself, inside lays the girl, lifeless and slaughtered. In the end the judge wins, and this notion is applied in any interpretation you can think of, so then comes the question of what is the judge. Some like to think he’s just a man, others a supernatural force of evil. To me the judge is a man with supernatural brushes, but he is also a representation of evil, eventually it eats up the kid and corrupts the little humanity that was left inside him. Evil will never die, it dances in shadow and light and it’s always dancing. He says that he will never die.

How wrong judge was about the end to the tyranny of violence

The music makes this unwatchable

I love how you spoil the ending I. Your thumb nail, thanks for that

I am a horse lover. In my own book series, when I publish, my MC will get a horse named Lily. He's not gonna know why but he feels so attached to the horse more than any other animal. Lily is a shameless self insert of a horse I had in my youth. She was so gentle and so loving. It's my way of preserving her memory. I have a feeling that if this guy read my book he'd say my MC is "obsessed" with his horse. 😂

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I remember seeing in the book where the young man encounters judge at another saloon earlier in the story he walks in, you see the judge sitting naked in a chair. A young data girl he had kidnapped. I was being cautiously assaulted by town fool or idiot - the judge then started playing a violin the whole scene just, it was laid out to be sure, strange and brutal - it was what led me to believe that the judge himself was always a representation of the devil, the most evil being bigger than most man an albino with an extremely high level of intelligence creativity that gave me the impression. that it was all extremely sinister, I remember one conversation he was having when they "him and the young man" were part of a posse, and the judge became angry when he saw a bird flying. I was a bit shocked at the fact. This man was angry, infuriated at the simple fact of a bird flying in the sky - because it seemed to do so without this permission.

Holden is Trump

WTF Is the thumbnail, I got spoiled for no reason

I mean...he could just kill him...

I still dont get it

Please don't use music jesus

Don't you think it's "funny" how he never rapes adult females? Just kids and men. Mostly kids, though. Almost like he's poisoning the future while being dedply entrenched in the dry bones of the past. Waiting till the flesh of tomorrow grows over it and the blood of the human spirit refreshens it.

For anyone who doesn’t think the judge r*ped that man is dumb. The Judge wouldn’t be naked for no reason, he woulda just killed him and that’s it. Another thing is throughout the book there’s hints of the Judge potentially s*xually abusing children so you think he would spare a man from his sick desires? I think the Judge did both r*pe and murder, sadly. Even tho it’s just a book, it’s still a sad ending.

I disagree with a lot of this analysis, but i love that Blood Meridian is so ambiguous that it leaves so much open for interpretation.

A truly depraved and disgusting novel, one with a story I can't help but admire.

So the guy in the same edits as am and all tomorrow's is just an old con man/jerkwad with a bad opinion on life? Lame.

Unreadable crap, like the rest of his books.

Thank you for this video. It gave the background to the story and interpretations without holding your hand like other book review videos I've seen.

One of the things that distinguiahes literature from tv shows is that it's acceptable not to explain everything, as well as the author's choice not to provide those details. That's virtually the entire point.

Ive read some people theorize that the mess in the outhouse wasnt the Man, but the girl who owned the bear that went missing right before.

Sounds like an interesting philosophy that some immortal might’ve arrived at in the Highlander world.

Rod Serling?

bro crashed out

Dude f this thumbnail. I’m n the middle of this book. That better not be the ending

"that will never happen again" ...

The judge is the devil

People talk about the brutality of the book. It's actually quite tame compared to how things really were throughout human history.

The Judge is the devil obviously. He was the entire time.

I had to reread the end of Blood Meridian a couple times, and I still had to wonder if what I was reading was Holden killing the protagonist in the outhouse. Mccarthy is my favorite author and, in spite of having to reread some passages, I enjoy everything I've read. Suttree is my personal favorite work of his.

Just finished the book. After reading the epilogue, I kinda felt relieved that ultimately Judge Holden lost because I understood that the man was doing those holes for business' sake rather than war. So, probably mankind's proclivity to violence has finally become subservient to economics, and Judge Holden's influence has finally waned. But then again, given how bleak Cormac's world is, maybe it's just some other thing...

The grown men who discovered the horror in the outhouse weren’t giving any sentences to describe what the scene they saw inside. Yet a young teenager through the book describes in detail the most gruesome things in the world as it happens around him. Innocence lost, or better yet stolen by a cruel world. The men at the Saloon at least had the option to not see the horror for themselves.

ive always loved this book and other books that leave many things up to both interpretation and imagination

I think watching Berserk before reading this really desensitized me

Maybe this book is up to some interpretation but I think the judge represents the worst of man’s desires and the logic used to justify those desires along with the greatest of man’s strengths whit artistry etc. When he says he’ll never die perhaps he’s saying that man’s desire for the dance or warfare will never die. Shoot a step further thinking about this maybe the judge is just the kids shadow self he’s been trying to avoid for all that time. This is just my interpretation. “Before man was war awaited him, the ultimate trade before it’s ultimate practitioner”

if you need to rewrite whole paragraphs of any literary work just to understand it, maybe the book is kinda shit

The kid has big hands not the judge …. He runs away after taping & killing his sister…. You misread the judge . Cormac is laughing at his fans