Tag Archives: Cormac McCarthy
But what about the epilogue? (Blood Meridian)
At the end of an inconclusive book we are presented with a cryptic and brief passage that poses interesting questions in interpretation. The passage begins describing an unknown man that “[progresses] over the plain by means of holes which he … Continue reading
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The Role of Foreboding in Blood Meridian
“The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves.” (125) Cormac McCarthy masterfully paints a picture … Continue reading
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the ending to Blood Meridian
Ambiguous endings are tough. They always leave people speculating, theorizing, and arguing with each other over what they think the author means to say, when ultimately we can never truly, 100 percent know everything that happens in the end. Such … Continue reading
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Coping with death
In our last two novels, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and Dom DeLillo’s White Noise we have encountered death throughout the books. The authors have two very different ways of dealing with death. In Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s character stare death in … Continue reading
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McCarthy keeps it real
He took off the shirt. It stuck to the skin and a yellow pus ran. His arm was swollen to the size of his thigh and it was garishly discolored and small worms worked in the open wound. –Blood Meridian, pg. … Continue reading
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Violence in White Noise/Blood Meridian
“Are you saying that men have tried throughout history to cure themselves of death by killing others?” “It’s obvious.” “And you call this exciting?” “I’m talking theory. In theory, violence is a form of rebirth. The dier passively succumbs. The … Continue reading
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A Surreal Landscape
We’ve discussed to a large extent the role that violent acts play in Blood Meridian, but there’s a whole other half of the book that wasn’t much discussed in class—the in-between scenes in the desert landscapes where nothing special happens … Continue reading
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Cormac McCarthy and Werner Herzog on Science
Recently Cormac McCarthy appeared on NPR’s Science Friday with director Werner Herzog where they discussed the relationship between science and art. Listen to it here (press play near top left of screen).
War. War never changes.
If Cormac McCarthy played video games, which do you think would be his favorite? My Choice would be the Fallout Series. The Fallout series takes place in the future, in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by nuclear war. The radiation has … Continue reading
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Dealing with the Supernatural in “Blood Meridian”
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is a novel that is undoubtedly laden with violence to the point that we have talked about how we have been desensitized to it because it is so common place. The violence is so intense that … Continue reading
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