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