/lit/ - Literature

post 24 with name and picture and let's find out

>Yes.

He lived in a society.

what was his problem?

I often hear people claim that Judge Holden is some sort of demon or Satan, but this review states the opposite:That Judge Holden is God.

>Cormac McCarthy is a Catholic. For religious people, and especially Catholics, with their felt intimacy with God, the biggest problem in the world is the presence of evil. Blood Meridian is a metaphysical allegory that attempts to reconcile the presence of evil with the existence of God. Judge Holden represents God. He is above good and evil. These are concepts that man has devised to describe acts or thoughts that are compatible or not with God’s will. To God they mean nothing. The Judge is totally amoral. The ex-priest Tobin is the devil. Like Satan, he was once God’s servant (priest or, in the metaphysical realm, angel). Just as the devil tried to tempt Jesus in the wilderness, so Tobin tries to tempt the Kid in the desert. He tries to get him to kill the Judge. There is no reason why the Kid should do this. The only reason we think the Judge wants to kill the KId is that Tobin implies it. In fact we know that the Judge did not kill Brown or Toadvine, and he had ample opportunity to kill the Kid but did not do so. He is in fact, throughout the book, looking out for him. He pursues him through the desert to save him from the devil. The Kid is the human embodiment of God, or as Catholics would have it, God the Son. (God the Holy Ghost is the idiot. Remember, in literature the word “idiot” may not have its conventional meaning, cf Dostoevsky). At the end of the book, the Kid goes to a dark place a bit removed from where people gather. Jesus was buried in a cave, from where he ascended to heaven, or as is sometimes stated “gathered to the bosom of the Lord” or “gathered him in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh”. For Catholics, the mystery of the Trinity, which this scene represents is sublimely “terrible”, hence the onlookers’ shock at seeing it enacted. Anyone who thinks that the act in this scene is an act of sodomy, should read the book again and realise that such a facile ending would be totally incompatible with the intricate structure of theological allegory that the author has painstakingly built over the previous 300 or so pages.
At all plausible sounding?

>The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

>blocks your path

>>15349565
Can I rape that?

>>15260292
nyehee

>>15228695
>pussy is the ultimate reason why wars exist
blocks your path

nyehee

>mfw i'm about to be born
something like that

I've almost finished Blood Meridian and I don't have any more books to read, help me get some more ideas for stuff to read frens. I like Westerns and I like pirates. Swedish /lit/ is also welcome. Been thinking about The Dark Tower

nyeheeee

7 foot tall (do people not realise how freakishly tall that is?)

Massive.

Completely hairless.

Pure white skin.

Has travelled everywhere on earth.

Can speak five languages.

Is extremely talented at everything he does, playing the fiddle, drawing, shooting, writing, killing.

Knows everything about everything (even things like palaeontology which barely existed in the 1860's)

Implied he can do literal magic.

Strong enough to beat a horse to death with his bare hands.

Never ages (The kid remarks that he hasn't changed at all in the final chapter despite 20 years or so going by)

It's all a bit silly, isn't it?

>accuses you of pedo and zoo-philia
wdyd

Blood Meridian

should i read blood meridian?

I've never been spooked by an antag like this before.

Recommendation for books with antags like Judge Holden?

>be in the grocery store, near frozen food isle
>take ice cream out of the freezer, lick the top, and put it back in
>men are born for games, nothing more

*rapes u*

What the fuck was his problem?