!bookworms, first Blood Meridian thread!
Next week's thread will cover chapter's VI-XI.
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The way the text is written makes it feel droning to me, which I think is intended.
The kid is oddly lucky in terms of finding people who will give him kindness. Of course he tends to lie to make himself more sympathetic, but it's still striking to me. I guess partially because I was warned about the violence so it has less of an effect.
Of course, the hermit probably wanted to r*pe the kid, so that's only half a kindness I guess.
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I was a bit shocked at how he just happened to survive the onslaught of the legion of horribles. I know I know it's a story with a shitty ending if our main protagonist had died there but from how McCarthy described the carnage and viciousness of the Indians I would have thought there's no fricking way he could have made it out alive, let alone without severe cuts or wounds.
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