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Notes on Blood Meridian Edwin T. Arnold, John Sepich
Publisher: University of Texas Press

Textual Detritus – McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Firstly, it's not pamphlet sized. McCarthy seems, for the most part, to deliver a chaotic, almost high-modernist metaphysic of chance and naked force (see in particular No Country for Old Men or Blood Meridian). This one is Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. The judges gun in the novel Blood Meridian has the inspription Et In Arcadia Ego. At night in the wilderness he will often spend his time collecting natural specimens of flora and fauna, keeping careful notes. Textual Detritus is a running series of notes focused on my reading list for exams related to my PhD studies. Posted on July 17, 2009 by Nick. But releasing your personal papers is, invariably, an exercise in vulnerability—and there are moments of it in McCarthy's notes. The 1638 painting titled Et In Arcadia Ego above is in part a response to Virgils use of the adage. The second one I checked out (Notes on Blood Meridian by John Sepich), is a little more dense. Blood Meridian, celebrating its 25th year in print, is the subject of the McCarthy Society's conference at the Wittliff Collections. The Kid is a Tennesseean who cannot read nor write and is described as, "not big but he has big wrists, big hands. To even those who know him, the Judge seems more than a little supernatural and fully out of place in most situations. The child's face is curiously untouched behind the scars, the eyes oddly innocent. MILLER'S CROSSING might as well be about a different .. In Cormac Mccarthy's 1985 book Blood Meridian, Judge Holden rides along with a group of border scalp hunters, fighting renegade Indians for a price. BLOOD SIMPLE and RAISING ARIZONA don't take place on the same planets. I've read and loved two other books by McCarthy, I had high expectations, but Blood Meridian was impossible for me to get into. Also, I'd suggest one look up Blood Meridian's wikipedia entry, although I'd skip the "Plot Summary" segment as it's full of spoilers. This map of the geographic area covered in Blood Meridian is the latest in bibioklept's series of entries celebrating the 25th anniversary reissue of what is arguably Cormac McCarthy's best novel.