Excellent Point on Unreliable Narrator

[Edward A Moore]

He was definitely larger than life.

It is very discouraging to revisit that quote below to put it mildly.

I think we can render fractured views of
reality thru our ideological prisms (theories) and predict the future somewhat
by reviewing past events (empiricism) looking for patterns or chains
of cause and effect.

>From TR he said early on something about magic>>religion>>science.

This reminds me of physics theories moving from Aristotelian (God's
will pulling an object to earth) to Newtonian physics (the vague
gravittational force)

Also I recall religious perspectives and how effects and their causes
(say God's multiple interventions in the Old Testament ) versus
Buddha viewing the world as just chaos (a crappy summary on my part
I admit) enable people to view events very differently.

ed

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> The Judge suffers from being a symbol rather than a human being.
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> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My bad.
>>
>> The Judge is a bad guy and he kills the good guy in the end.
>>
>> The Judge is one reliably evil villain.
>>
>> ed
>>
>> 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=92s 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
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