Questions tagged [blood-meridian]
"Blood Meridian" (1985), a Western novel by Cormac McCarthy. Use with the [cormac-mccarthy] tag.
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Primers in "Blood Meridian" — an unmentioned/overlooked detail?
This somewhat recapitulates my question about making gunpowder which was so brilliantly answered yesterday.
Basically, my question is, given that the gang in Blood Meridian certainly had primers, ...
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Does "Blood Meridian" accurately describe gunpowder manufacture?
In Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy has the gang of "Indian fighters" surrounded and out of powder, so one of them manages to make it from scratch, making charcoal from wood, saltpeter ...
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Inconsistently generous/decent behavior of bad guys in Blood Meridian?
(Mild spoilers -- but why try to answer if you have not read the book?)
While there is no question that the gang indulges often in violence with minimal or
literally zero provocation (the puppy ...
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Truce of the burning tree -- how realistic?
Seems to me that in real life we have situations where predators suspend attacks -- best example I can think of is the "Cleaning Station" in the ocean: wrasses clean larger fish and everyone ...
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In Blood Meridian, why does the judge call out the kid as being different?
Toward the end of Blood Meridian, Judge Holden says a curious thing to the kid when the two are hunting each other in the desert:
There's a flawed place in the fabric of your heart. Do you think I ...
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What's the significance of The Idiot in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian?
Toward the end of Blood Meridian, the gang encounters a man whose brother is so severely disabled that he is kept naked in a cage. Obviously, this character cannot speak and does not contribute to the ...
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What is the purpose of the surrealist content in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian?
The bleak violence of Blood Meridian is punctuated at intervals by various vignettes that have an air of surrealism, almost of black comedy. Some examples from memory include:
The "buffones"...
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Is Blevins in All the Pretty Horses the modern-day version of Blood Meridian's The Kid?
Both The Kid and Blevins are not evil but at the same time extremely dangerous young men (of roughly the same age) on their own due to the death of their fathers.
It seems pretty likely that if ...
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Origin of "give a watermelon a pure fit" in "Blood Meridian"
On page 334 of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Elrod responds to the man’s assertion that the ears on his scapular were taken from Apaches by saying that the “Apaches would give a watermelon a pure ...
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What is the meaning of the epilogue in Blood Meridian?
Cormac McCarthy is famously tight-lipped as to his own interpretations of his work. Nevertheless, there are some clear themes in his novel Blood Meridian: human propensity to violence and the efforts ...
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