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

[Mr Haney]

> From: richardryan> doesn't have to sit through the sheriff's tedious corn pone> philosophizing.
actually that was one of the things I liked about it...
the thing that tied the book together for me, the idea of
the guy aging out of the law-enforcer role, he (not the author, I'd say)
opining of how the criminals these days are worse ever, more than he can handle,
never saw such evil -- likeable enough guy, and the thing about his father
gone ahead to light the way...
the personal touch in a sense, those particular morning fires that his father lit
being similar to the cases that the sheriff did solve during his career which is
drawing to a close - 
 
> > My point is simply to acknowledge that it's> possible for the human and the monstrous to cohabit in a literary or> cinematic figure. >
 
when old Sugar comes a cropper in that car wreck, we see that what
happened to Wells will eventually happen to him, as to every badass...
 > 3. What are these human/attractive elements of the Judge you folks> keep mentioning? I seem to have missed them, but I freely admit that I> find the enormous flashing "IMPORTANT SYMBOL" sign McCarthy has placed> over his head terribly distracting...> 
I'm unqualified to thoroughly address this, since I couldn't finish the book (too much violence,
too little to love, I thought) ...but that never stops me... the judge gives some speeches
that are pretty intelligent, sets forth the view of war as the ultimate game (in a way that
begs for equally intelligent refutation, which the only sign of in the book that I saw was the Mennonite 
warning the Kid and his buddy(ies?) in that one town)  -- also he knows many languages
and science & stuff...
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