/lit/ - Literature

Sorry for the low quality thread, I just wanted to make sure the reading of Blood Meridian is still happening in June, and if so, what days? Thank you.

Why is this so relaxing? Its more calming than the most peaceful moments in moby-dick or the most laid back of Marlowe's in the Chandler novels

Have there been any good studies exploring the Schopenhauer and Nietzsche themes in this book?

This was the best criticism of Cold War America written. Too bad he hasn't written anything as good since.

The chases and hunts always felt weird, like I didn't have a good reference on the distances beetween the parties.
Somerltimes they are in the desert at a stone's throw away and they still managed to take days to catch up to one another or to disappear from one's view, like there is something to hide in the desert

>Kindly address your remarks to me, Lieutenant, said the judge. I represent Captain Glanton in all legal matters. I think you should know first of all that the captain does not propose to be called a liar and I would think twice before I involved myself with him in an affair of honor. Secondly I have been with him all day and I can assure you that neither he nor any of his men have ever set foot in the premises to which you allude.
>The lieutenant seemed stunned at the baldness of these disclaimers. He looked from the judge to Glanton and back again. I will be damned, he said. Then he turned and pushed past the men and quit the place.

>at the BALDness of these disclaimers
jesus christ when did you realise mccarthy was a literary genius?

Why does everyone just keep on giving away valuable food and supplies to complete strangers?

Did I like it?

Hey guys first time posting on /lit/, I saw a guide you guys made on another website that recommended blood meridian and I just thought I would swing by and ask you to account for yourselves?

this thing was boring as fuck and felt like it was halfway between an advert for tortillas and a psycho teenagers moody violent fantasy. 0/10

>>9750111
Well shit.
Jessie, this is for you.

What the fuck did I just read

>>9679409
This.

I posted that picture of Anton Chigurh because it lined up so well with what Brassier was saying about the nature of consciousness, how we become alienated/free/inhuman at the same time. I was actually afraid that it would be misread as being an argument *for* being Anton Chigurh. Obviously it isn't. Fortunately /lit/ is smarter than that. AC is even worse than the T-1000.

But Blood Meridian is the masterpiece. The Judge > Anton Chigurh. And there's the epilogue too. McCarthy like all great novelists is capable of explaining in one staggering novel what philosophers have to take decades of repeating themselves to do. And then disciples fuck it up.

Much philosophy imho is often just playing-catch up to literary criticism, which in turn is trying to figure out what novelists somehow mysteriously intuit.

Literature > philosophy. But it's all of a piece ofc.

This, holy shit.

you should read this

it's got great advice on how to be a writer

What are the GOAT Westerns?

I would literally give my left nut (really healthy, by the way, heavy producer) if Paul Thomas Anderson adapted Blood Meridian.

I was watching The Master and the beginning where Freddy is sort of jumping from job to job getting into fights really reminds me of the beginning of this novel. The Master in general has lots of parallels, strong enough to be intentional. Also, the desolate desert landscapes of There Will Be Blood and his insistence to use Jonny Greenwood for every movie now doesn't hurt.

Why do people like this book. I found it really boring, just male centred nonsense.

>boys go horse riding
>boys go drinking
>boys fight each other
>boys walking
>boy abuse minorities

Is there anything to engage the interest of the general reader rather than someone interested in macho stuff?

Why do you guys love this? Should I read it?