Blood Meridian @BloodMeridianQT
Nonsequential quotes from ‘Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West’ by Cormac McCarthy, 1985 // Header: “The Phantom Cart”, Salvador Dalí, 1933 cormacmccarthy.com/works/blood-me… Tennessee, USA Joined April 2021-
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You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.
The desert wind would salt their ruins and there would be nothing, nor ghost nor scribe, to tell to any pilgrim in his passing how it was that people had lived in this place and in this place died.
All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not.
The good book does indeed count war an evil, said Irving. Yet there's many a bloody tale of war inside it.
In the predawn light he made his way out upon a promontory and there received first of any creature in that country the warmth of the sun's ascending.
He rode near the head of the column and he must have counted himself well out of that place yet if he gave thanks to any god at all it was ill timed for the country was not done with him.
Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
When the riders passed through this same village four days later the dead were still in the streets and buzzards and pigs were feeding on them.
Lightning stood in ragged chains far to the south, silent, the staccato mountains bespoken blue and barren out of the void.
To the west the cloudbanks stood above the mountains like the dark warp of the very firmament and the starsprent reaches of the galaxies hung in a vast aura above the riders heads.
The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.
He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.
"Two thick ropes of dark blood and two slender rose like snakes from the stump of his neck and arched hissing into the fire. The head rolled to the left and came to rest at the expriest's feet where it lay with eyes aghast." BLOOD MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthy
He lay on his side in the dust of the courtyard. The men were gone, the whores were gone. An old man swept the clay floor within the cantina. The boy lay with his skull broken in a pool of blood, none knew by whom.
So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions.
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@BloodMeridianQT McCarthy channeling Dostoevsky.
This book has nothing but bars on bars on bars
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
@BloodMeridianQT near instantly sets the tone for the whole novel. what a quote.
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You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Cormac McCarthy had some beautifully dark thoughts about mankind and the ugliness of our earthly lives. I wonder if he's found any joy in the afterlife. It would be kind of hilarious to find that, in heaven, he is spending the rest of eternity writing rom-coms.
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
Cormac having his ear bent off by the AGI wallahs at Santa Fe.
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
@BloodMeridianQT I write this on student reports
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You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
My six-part lecture series on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian is free on YouTube and starts here: youtube.com/watch?v=8IF4_F…
@BloodMeridianQT War was always here. Before man was, war was waiting for him.
Me after I finish squeezing my car tires on the side of the highway because my tpms alert went off on the first day of winter.
what a collection of sentences
Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.
lol
As we must.
[Beckett gets out his pen, unscrews the top, writes in the margin]: You must ride on. I can't ride on. I'll ride on.
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