Questions tagged [blood-meridian]
"Blood Meridian" (1985), a Western novel by Cormac McCarthy. Use with the [cormac-mccarthy] tag.
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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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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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