TR re: Relates to seeking patterns and conspiracies where cause and effect gets dissected

[alice wellintown]

That the judge is an asshole, or in traditional terms, a bad guy or
villian, does not render his statement unreliable. What makes a
narrator or character-narrator unreliable is that his statements are
at odds with the implied author's norms. Is this is the case with the
judge in McCarthy's BM?

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:48 PM,  <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not
> constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what
> exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more
> things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order
> in creation which you see is that which you have put there,
> like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way.
> For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can
> compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others."
>
> "Blood Meridian"
> by Cormac McCarthy
>
> The Judge(think Marlon Brando in "Apocalypse Now") in this
> book quoted above was an asshole so unreliable narrator thingee
>
>
> thought this related to the pattern theme/idea/meme that we have for TR
>
> ed