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He is a great favorite, the judge

>>21791577
>war IS civilization you retard

Why didn't The Kid shoot Holden in the desert? I have 3 interpretations:

1- He doesn't shoot for the same reason The Judge sees him as a great disappointment: deep down he's a decent man that refuses to embrace Holden's view of the world, he refuses to allow himself to turn into a monster, to take that extra step, despite having the potential for violence. Showing mercy is a direct insult to Holden and his beliefs, and for that The Judge kills him at the end.

2- At this point The Kid is aware that Holden isn't just an ordinary man and is afraid of him. The way he seems somewhat obsessed with The Judge may support this, and the fact he specifically says ''I'm not afraid of you''.

3- The Kid developed some sort of group loyalty, so killing one of ''their own'' is somehow a greater sin than killing random innocent people. That's why in almost all scenes where the Kid shoes kindness and mercy it is directed at his partners, he never just leaves them for dead.

I believe the first explanation to be more convincing, but if that's the case, the book doesn't make it that clear that you're supposed to view The Kid as morally ambiguous, or even as a decent person struggling in a bad situation. He killed dozens of innocents, took part in gruesome massacres of innocent indians and mexicans, and now the book is telling me he's above shooting Holden because he's a good person? I'm not so sure about that...

>>15934506
An absolute chad

>War is a God

>Debate me.

>everything is my property
is this what being unspooked looks like?

>Society and the human race has gotten far too complex and degenerate lately. Atomization, technical and information innovations, economic uncertainty, climate change, political polarization and total hedonistic nihilism are breaking us down and tearing us apart. There has to be a levelling, a stamping of the hornet's nest, to destroy all that has been built up and wipe the slate clean and start anew or, if possible, wipe out existence itself.

Books for this feel? Preferably philosophical, though fiction is OK too.

Holden is The White Whale become Man

was he a Mary Sue?

He killed dozens.

Just starting to read pic related.
What are some other good /lit/ recommended Western novels and short stories?

So what's the deal with that last chapter?

What the fuck was his fucking problem

She wasn't wrong at all, she just doesn't look far enough.

>>9644920
>Foundations thus hold a special place in philosophy, with philosophers obsessively writing and rewriting the book of Genesis. It is Kant, the great thinker of the genetic “condition,” “who finally turns the philosopher into the Judge at the same time that reason becomes a tribunal” (WP, 72). Deleuze refuses to disown his own “in the beginning.” But for him, the movement of thought follows an explosive line whose genesis comprises problems manifest from imperceptible forces that disrupt habits of mind. Such thinking does not build a courthouse of reason whereby each advance in thought confirms more about what was already self-evident, as if developing an elaborate mirror of the world (N 38–39; DR 129). In contrast, the “enemy” Kant does something intolerable by creating a theory of law that diverts the ungrounding called thought, ending its journey to an unrecognized terra incognita (DI 58; DR 136). He does this by reversing the Greeks, making it so the law does not depend on the good like a material substrate and instead deriving the good from law—“the good is that which the law expresses when it expresses itself” (K, 43). Expressing their disapproval, Deleuze and Guattari draw a “portrait” of Kant that depicts him as a vampiric death machine feeding off the world (WP, 56).”

Can /lit/ refute this man?

holy... i want war

Who's death hit you the hardest in Blood Meridian? For me it was Glanton's with Sproule's a close second.

>>9305728

either a mix of ketamine/opiates in the desert at night or gunfight with the cops.

Judge Holden for a member of the pantheon? His question would presumably relate to war in some way

Thoughts?

>>8986030

>Says he loves The Kid as a son
>Kills him in a toilet

What was his fucking problem?