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Thanks for the valuable background info!

Hey man, I just got done listening to this one. I love it. I’ve been looking for more in-depth background on McCarthy‘s influences and philosophy. I hope you’re able to put out more stuff soon and whenever you can name the sources where you’re learning this stuff from is much appreciated.

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Just subscribed after watching your Passenger video.Very impressive.Look foward to watching more of your content.

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After reading blood meridian and then finding and watching your videos about it, I’m am very excited to read this. I have had it recommended once before, but I never cracked into it. As for reviews I would love to see, one of my favorite books I’d love to hear your take on is No Longer Human, by Osamu Desai

brilliant analysis

If the Kid is a messiah figure, maybe the Judge can be seen as a zealot. The Judge expects someone with power to wield it with a vengeance. He would absolutely be disappointed that the Son of God came to be a humble man, not a despot

Gosh, mcCarthy really does write amazing antagonists. Characters like the judge and Anton Chigurh are just forces of nature.

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The tent scene shows the Judge is " the father of lies".

I’m in love with your channel! You are interested in the same books, same authors so, yeah, I’m loving this.

Welcome back. Is this book about The Boys??? Billy Butcher so cool, he crosses over and gets powers!! Okay sorry. I stopped watching at the ten minute mark when you started delving deeper since I haven't read this but I'll keep it in my back pocket. To be honest, I got halfway through Blood Meridian six months ago and stopped altogether - I wasn't in a great place at the time and I felt the book kind of falling into a rhythm that was disturbing but not what I was looking for in a story at that point. I see the value in how potent his prose is, but really it's your passion for the story that's personally one of the greatest drives for me to start it over and follow through; I'd like to feel a similar way about it as you, and indulge in the thought processes that it provokes without feeling put off by the density or rawness of it all. I even bought a copy of Bothers Karamazov solely because of how beautifully you spoke of it, and I plan to take it on at some point. Seeing you explicate things - even books I'm not particularly interested in - really encourages me to expand what I read. You seem like a busy guy but I hope to see more from ya. Do you have many thoughts on Vonnegut? Not my favorite or anything but he pops up in my thoughts often; I've always been a huge fan of Cat's Cradle, moreso than Slaughterhouse Five. Been a while since I read it (high school), and it's a short book, but I remember thinking that it had a lot of in-between nuanced meaning packed in that I was too young to fully extrapolate, especially with how absurd the story gets on the surface level.

happy to see a new upload after all this time!

Someone heard your quest, Roadside Picnic is now on ebay, amazon and i ordered one used. Look forward to it! I love Tarkovsky

I think you have convinced me to give Ulysses a second chance🎉

They are reading to be in the main Stream ( the window shoppers), talk at the watercooler. Thoufhtful response, the need for introductions. I miss you and your thoughts. Even the French musicbackground at your cafe. I hope all is well and I look forward to your return with fresh insights.

Wonderful!!!! Thank you for such an in depth review, the homage to Byron, Spengler, Nietzche and Schopenhauer-so helpful. These influences enrich. I loved knowing, before, how the painter, Inness, was influenced by Schopenhauer--transformed his work.

it seemed apparent to me and i’m just a regular guy w no expert claims to any expertise at all that the judge and I guess if you think that the judge is the kid then the kid - - whatever- is a molester muderer of young boys. It’s also pretty clear that he isn’t a regular person. Demon, God, spirit, Satan, life force something along those lines, but a gay one- whats up with that - once again demonizing gayness Where is the logic? Gay guys I know are the nicest dudes on the planet You want to feel safe walking around at night in nyc then do it in chelsea or the villiage. Now the kid starts out with that legacy of violence (we all share) and somehow gets more compassionate and responsible. That makes sense to me. hes evolving. moving in the right direction. the judge was not into that but probably was going to rape and kill the kid in any case. war is not good by any reasonable assessment. how could it be? I guess maybe its fun if youre a superhuman and cant die but when the world blows up you have no more young boys left to dance with fuck then slaughter so no more fun for you. Thats the extent of what I think of Blood Meridian. Convince me in simple terms without hour long references to Byron or Milton that im missing the point or there’s more to it than that.

I’d love to see you break down the last section of No Country For Old Men, from Bell’s conversation with the old man about vanity and the hardness of the world, to the dreams he talks about with his wife.

I understand who you are referring to when you say The Man. Obviously you are referring to The Kid as his older self in the final chapter of Blood Meridian, you know, the subject of the video? Please have some respect for the audience to understand things.

Great job. You're filling in missed analysis

The Judge killed the little girl who was working with the bear. Probably raped her too. That's why she's lost/missing in the very end, right?

Can you read Butcher's Crossing by John Williams and do a review about that book?

Just found this channel and I really like your videos. You haven’t posted in a few months are you still working on uploading?

Not gonna lie, my favourite part of the book was when the Judge said, "I'll be the judge of that!" and then judged everyone

9:09 They, the man and his horse

I find myself horrified at the way the Judge is trying to manipulate folks the entire time. He’s a compelling character, if you allow him to do all of the thinking for you. Which he will gladly do.

Don't give up!

dugin is not putin's "spiritual leader" . they have not even met met more than once . and putin's speeches show he has very different ideas about russia than dugin ( who is also very different from dostoevsky )

Coming back to say this is propably the best vid on BM. Really made me see it in a different way.

I do not follow you about the Kid being a Saint. To be a Saint, it has to be proven beyond a doubt that they performed or caused 2 miracles before their death and one after their death. Also why hasn't it been brought up that the Judge is pure Satan and the Dance at the end is with a circle of Demons. Please let me hear from your opinion on this.

Surface narratives for normies.

Thank you for your brilliant commentary. Some of the best I’ve found on youtube and very satisfying. Would love more blood meridian content if you have it in you. Thanks.

Why I now hate Cormac McCarthy His work ethic. How the fuck does this dude write so much so well. His omniscience. He knows everything about everything. His Power. He writes sentences so deeply layered, so devastatingly descriptive that I might strive the whole rest of my life, add all the wasted years and even another life unwasted and still not write one sentence as good as his most average. His use of the word like. Too much fucking like Cormac. Too much. Pick a different preposition. His dismissal of poetry. Poetry is third only to scent and music as an express route to the heart. He himself is one of the greatest poets America has ever produced. The violence. The fucking violence. The overwhelming, heartshredding violence. The truth. He gives us the truth we are not ready, will never be ready to hear. The cocksure confidence. Fuck you and your absolute security in yourself Cormac.

This is actually a cool idea. It would make the viewer more interested in books he/she wouldn't otherwise consider picking up (at least, it worked this way for me with this one). Also, that same tendency toward rambling a bit out of the rail of your very first videos would otherwise fit perfectly here. Oh, and the reading of the first pages with a quick first impressions giveaway was nice too.

amazing idea for a series! you always scratch the itch for this interconnected analysis with your videos, even when you haven’t read the book

the secret history by donna tartt might be good for this series -- not sure if you've already read it though. anyways, great video.

After finishing you video, it was very insightful and you mentioned some things that I've never thought of. You definitely have a good way of making points without rambling nowhere, you made it very clear and kept to the point without losing yourself which can be easily done as I've seen in many others.

Obviously that’s not Jim Carrey on the cover; it’s Theo Von. Another slapper of a video. Your patience and articulation in these is so valuable.

Thank you for doing this!!! 😊

Now I'm watching this video after your last analysis. Subscribed brother. I really enjoyed your analysis on this one. I did say this in last video but repeating most of it for others. I personally believe that the judge actually did NOT kill the Kid but instead made love to him to finalise his dominance, explaining his nakedness inside the room, then they both killed the little missing dancing bear girl together in a display of their love of violence and she was the sacrifice. Now being a man in the judges eyes, he needs to decide to really dance or not. To really kill or to not. And it was not the judge who killed the kids throughout the book but in fact the Kid. The true anti hero. Remember when the Kid was in prison and the judge came to visit him, he said he always loved him and tells him to come closer to him so he can touch the kid but the Kid refused. When the Kid finally arrives at the bar with the dancing bear, this is perhaps the judge confirming to himself that the Kid truly does love him by returning to him as a Man. The judge did not kill the Kid because the judge simply loves him but in a real sinister way. The dance is making love to the judge and killing, the proper ultimate game to the judge is dominance over others. Those who dance and those who don't. The final dance is the ritual and if it's done falsely, it's not a real ritual. Holden dances in victory of his tradition of pure violence which will never die, nor does violence sleep.

Really enjoyed this and I'm a big Stephen King fan but only recently got into McCarthy, fascinating writer. I personally believe that the judge actually did NOT kill the Kid but instead made love to him to finalise his dominance, then they both killed the little missing dancing bear girl together in a display of their love of violence. And it was not the judge who killed the kids throughout the book but in fact the Kid. Remember when the Kid was in prison and the judge came to visit him, he said he always loved him and tells him to come closer to him so he can touch the kid but the Kid refused. When the Kid finally arrives at the bar with the dancing bear, this is perhaps the judge confirming to himself that the Kid truly does love him by returning to him as a Man. The judge did not kill the Kid because the judge simply loves him but in a real sinister way. The dance is making love to the judge and killing, the proper ultimate game to the judge is dominance over others. Those who dance and those who don't.

You make an alarming statement about faith, "and this is something we see in Blood Meridian" and then read a passage I'm all ears to hear... like where are you getting this from? You read something that literally has nothing to do with that, Then you claim the people were manipulated by their moral values. No, they were manipulated because they have or use no civilized standard of evidence by which to evaluate claims, this comes from the shroud of truth religion places on things. Religion did not give anyone insight into the judge, or the reverend or anything. Heart of a human versus natural world? Ok, but that has nothing to do with faith, and right before that you were pointed about the Brother Karamazov even naming Christian Theology, then you launch in to this passage that makes no sense in that light. "by retaining and respecting these moral values that you become manipulable." So you think a mob that attacks a person based on word of mouth are people adhering to moral values? That's pretty alarming. The Judge played on their blind spots and trust. The real issue is, it's probably normal for people to assume someone is speaking the truth, because why would he say such things? That's one blind spot, but the next is having no order what so ever after that. If they do track him down, there should also be an investigation and the person making those claims is breaking the law. It was not lawful or moral to put someone in danger based on slander. So to chalk this up as people following their moral values is just plain alarming to me. This has nothing to do with morals or even what is lawful at the time. Libel laws go way back. Then you make this other wild claim "are we going to accept our true nature" and you list adjectives like murderous and savages. Even ANCIENT history belies this wild claim. Regardless of what some men do, people as far back as history records formed protections and codes showing that over all, we like to function in spite of those things. This I should not have to elaborate on. Blood Meridian explains quite well why people were the way they were in this pocket of time and space. The space is also selected for murderous men to do as they will, that does not speak to our true or more perfect natures. Law codes do. But I'm not trying to make my own claims, I'm just saying that in light of reality, there would be no reason to draw these conclusions, or at least back them up with something from the book that would indicate the author is saying these things. I don't know if this is your view, or you just think the book says that? It is really confusing. You also say before that 'slipping back in to something more perfect' so there is another claim. There are so many claims here. Humanity did not begin in the South West of the United States in 1849. Those are quite modern times as far has thought and civilization goes. "Where in the beginning we see Captain White saying we are going to civilize these Mexicans." - 11:00 What?? I don't know what you are talking about here. That's what you got out of his homicidal racist genocidal rants? They were going to commit slaughters and steal land and he used the same old excuses throughout the ages of why they can do that. So that amazing page, or couple of pages hit you like what?? Him saying they were going to civilize people? I'm floored by this. That bit is absolutely amazing because it puts the reader in a position of listening to pure evil and it's historically accurate and expose of the most genocidal thinking. People still use that rhetoric today. That part of the book blew my hair back but your take is.... ??? That he said they were going to civilize people? "Can the spirit withstand..." So where does "SPIRIT" come in? This is another wild claim that you need to back up with sections of the book. It's just a wild claim. Human beings have brains and we function certain ways. People in this book are accurately portrayed as wild with trauma. That's why it's a good book, because it shows people as we see Meth addicts today. Their brain is attacked. It has nothing to do with "spirit" unless you please direct me to where I need to read more about that in Blood Meridian. I find it baffling when I run in to other humans that do not have any sort of grip on what it means to be human. Nobody can live like they did, and the novel is great because it shows human beings suffering and deteriorating under those circumstances that are not civilized. Carmac describes a place where there was no civilization like there was in other parts of the world, in other time periods, etc. You call things humans can't really go through "a trial of the heart" . It's so frustrating when people are so not in tune with what a human being is and how we operate. The brain exists. That's where men are the most dangerous, they act like they are anything BUT a brain and a nervous system that has certain ways that it functions and reacts. The book is great at showing the variety of manifestations that trauma takes in human beings. This is as wild to me as you wondering if people can survive if an animal gnaws their leg off. That's a medical question. There is going to be pain and trauma there, and they will be legless. Whether one person's personality is more pleasing than another during this process is silly and irrelevant. This is not a problem with McCarthy this is a problem with people reading books that don't understand humans in the first place, and don't read things with any sense of reality, which is ironic considering this book is amazing in its reality. That is the thing that is supposed to teach us, but man you can drag a horse to water I guess... but the analogy falls apart in this case, because the horse here doesn't know what water is? You think that would be instinctual.

It is human history. Every world power ever has insisted equally aweful things being done.

I find irony in the fact that he extols the virtues of a belief in free will, yet suffered as an epileptic and gambling addict. His afflictions completely contradict his worldview.

Loved every minute of this, looking forward to more on this channel. Your understanding of Christianity has an incredible amount of depth to it, as well.

I've always believed that one of the main sources of inspiration for the character of Judge Holden came from Brando's Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. In fact I see a lot of Apocalypse in Blood Meridian.

I wish you would have included Melville as just get what all the fuss is about Moby Dick and I've read it twice trying to appreciate it. Thank you for all the work you did on this. I am a fan of McCarthy and truly appreciate Blood Meridian as well as Suttree. Wish I did same with Melville and Moby Dick. Look forward to more from you.

I've never quite managed to get a grasp on the ending... but I'm grateful for your interpretation of it. I'm definitely adding it to my personal roster of possible ways to see it. Still, there are a lot of things needed in order to make it work; one has to work around with the text a little bit; connect things here and there... but it can be a solid argument. Thank you for sprinkling a bit of hope on this book, if only a little.