NP, but a bit of prose poetry...

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I knew what I was reading halfway through the first line. Damn what a book. Some of the really wordy sentences can strain (cf. Suttree) but they're beautiful and barren all the same. 

The lack of sex scenes seems to me a McCarthy staple. Early on they mostly figure as perversion; later in his career he tries his hand at a few  of the traditional kind and, well, he's not very good at them. And to that his characters are alienated from everyone and themselves and the ground under their feet - not a suave, branded alienation a la Sartre but the kind of thing that shakes you to the bones. Female characters in general are less prominent throughout his books and he seems to be trying to correct that with his latest, coming out in a year or so.

There's definitely something to be made with the judge and the "idiot", but I'm at work, maybe later...

> On Dec 16, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Moby Dick was at the front of my mind throughout. Instead of man hunting a whale, and everything that represents, man is hunting man. I'm sure u all have dissected this one like an injun scalp but since I haven't really discussed it with anyone I'll say this in passing to get it out. I think the lack of sex scenes was certainly indicative of something because we know sex occurs in the book. And I would like to know what anyone thinks of the idiot, his cage and his chain to the judge and why the judge rescues him. One of the rare appearances of the fairer sex is when he is liberated from his cage. And just a random thought: when reading the passage where the judge is walking around with the idiot on the chain my mind seemed to conjur Dracula and Renfield. Was wondering what you smarter folk took from that whole interaction. 
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>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, page 247.
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>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just finished reading that for the first time last week. Had read the Road and No Country, was underwhelmed, and was not expecting to be wowed like I was with Blood Meridian. I was expecting it to be another over praised novel that did not meet expectations but it far exceeded mine. 
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>>> That *is* Blood Meridian right?
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>>>> On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> ...They rode on. The horses trudged sullenly the alien ground and the round earth rolled beneath them silently milling the greater void wherein they were contained. In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.
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