NP Satan in Lit (was Re: No Country plausibility issues)

[David Morris]

On Nov 20, 2007 2:24 PM, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Now I'm not suggesting that the Judge IS Satan ... if anything, there's more of a Confidence Man ambiguity surrounding how we should read his character ... but there are quite a few aspects that make him transcend the earthly "monster" figure and make him less fleshly, more supernatural.

I understand the points you're making re. the complexity of the Judge,
but I don't think your "earthly versus supernatural" dichotomy is a
good one.  His complexity/attractiveness make him MORE human in
comparison to the Horror Movie Monster Richard Ryan compared him to.
The HMM is invincible, always resurrecting from the dead, and is
mostly one-dimensional, and that makes him "supernatural" (meaning w/o
human qualities).  The judge IS supernatural, but he is also very
wonderfully human in many respects.

David Morris