/lit/ - Literature

>>15642703
Sociopathy, obviously.

>>15642703
What's this from?

>>15642825
Blood Meridian

He is Icarus risen unscathed to find the sky hollow and the pantheon empty.

>>15642703
When you’re god you can do whateva man whos gonna stop you some kid? No.

>>15642703
Ought is him.

lost hair, got angry

He will never sleep he will never die he will never sleep he will never die he will never sleep he will never die

>>15643110
This
Norwood reaper takes a man's sanity away

>>15643110
It's implied he never had hair.

>>15642703
Poor man's joker

was he a Djinn?

he has no problems, but he is your's

>>15644989
shut up loser

>>15645523
>

He’s the embodiment of American expansionism

>>15642703
not a coincidence

>>15646305
No

>>15646458
this, he's literally just the white devil

>>15644989
No. Blood Meridian is a gnostic novel. Once you understand that, it all falls into place. There is no good on Earth, only pointless toil.
It starts with Captain White, who leads his band of forty some-odd men on a journey to the promised land. Say what you will about his goals, he is one of the few characters who has any sense of idealism. He is very quickly slaughtered by a band of apaches. The survivors join up with a band of scalpers. Enter Glanton.
He's no idealist, just a simple businessman. He only seeks to make money by scalping Indians. Most people want money to help achieve other goals. Glanton appears to want money for money's sake. Pretty soon, money is forgotten entirely. He just keeps doing what he's always done, even when it brings him no profit. His group of raiders kills Indians with much the same sense of disregard and cruelty with which the Indians slaughtered Glanton's band, ironically taking their scalps (one of the atrocities for which the Indians are being hunted). When his troop returns to the city to collect their wages, furniture is smashed, people are killed, women are brutalized. Food and valuables are seized by money as opposed to force. The money paid to the scalpers winds up back in the hands of the townsfolk. There is literally no difference between an Apache raid and a scalper party. To further drive home the similarities between the Indians and the scalpers, McCarthy specifies that Glanton is forbidden on pain of death to return to the US. He has been driven out of his homeland and forced into a life of savagery in order to survive. Or did his savagery force him out of his homeland?
So who is the Judge, then? He is the refinement of the human spirit. Everyone in the book is an NPC compared to him. Everywhere he goes, he joylessly catalogues the wonders of the natural world, destroying them in the process. His natural aptitude for innovation and creation is ceaselessly applied to the art of destruction. Even at the bitter end, clinging to survival at the edge of waterhole in the middle of a barren desert, he insists on haggling for the expriest's hat using the enormous sack of money he has been hauling around in the desert despite the fact that it cannot be eaten or drank. He will not allow the priest to trade the hat for food, only money. The kid grows sick of him and attempts to flee into the wilderness. But no one is allowed to escape the Judge's will. The Judge quotes law at the kid after his horse is shot, but it's just a ruse to lure the kid out to his death. Fighting against the Judge is like one man fighting against the sum total of all humanity - fighting against the science of war, fighting against cruel economics, fighting against a convoluted legal system designed to advantage the powerful. And fighting for what? Simply to live, with no real purpose.

>>15646531
Good post.

rape.

>>15643055
>god

>>15642703
The Judge just wanted to dance and piss around and have a good 'ol time. Those injuns and mexicunts were just getting inbetween his fun and fancy. So he took care of business, and went to dance at that there saloon :^)

>>15646780
did he rape that little injun kid he carried with him for a bit before scalping him?

>>15646531
>he insists on haggling for the expriest's hat
i thought it was Toadvine's hat

Well being a psychopath could be one of the major reasons

>the judge was a (["psycho" || "socio"] + "path")

He lived in a society

>>15647523
i wondered that as well

>>15648690
>the judge [was]
no, the judge IS