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09-27-2016, 09:34 PM | #41 |
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09-28-2016, 06:53 AM | #42 |
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I just loved that all of those scenes were spaced out so that it didn't become a cartoon it was extremely well done and paced
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10-09-2016, 07:15 PM | #43 |
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10-12-2016, 12:23 AM | #44 |
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Tonight I finished my second reading of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.
I would argue that, if The Road qualifies as self-parody, Blood Meridian got there first, and lacks the newer novel's urgency and direction and character, besides. To be fair, Blood Meridian has lines and scenes of nearly heart-stopping beauty and insight, but nonetheless, I'll go ahead and say it: it's overrated. Still and all, I am glad I studied it a second time. One could spend hours exploring the Judge and be no closer to determining his nature. I think this exchange is perhaps our strongest hint of who and what he might be: The Kid: You aint nothin. The Judge: You speak truer than you know. Whatever the case, the novel also provided me with many, many titles for toy photos: Those Who Travel in Desert Places Do Indeed Meet With Creatures Surpassing All Description They Were Much Reduced By Their Wounds and Their Hunger The Doings of the World Were Too Slanderous For Him to Truck With, Or Perhaps Too Trivial And He Rode the Stars Down and the Sun Up Men's Memories are Uncertain and the Past That Was Differs Little From the Past That Was Not He Never Sleeps, He Says. He Says He'll Never Die. Even Over That Open terrain The Concussion Was Immense A Birth Scene or a Baptism or Some Ritual Not Yet Inaugurated Into Any Canon Like Some Queer Unruly God Abducted from a Race of Degenerates Men of God and Men of War Have Strange Affinities The Worth or Merit of a Game is Not Inherent in the Game Itself But Rather in the Value of That Which is Put at Hazard All Other Trades are Contained in That of War Before Man Was, War Waited for Him The Good Book Does Indeed Count War an Evil... Yet There's Many a Bloody Tale of War Inside It And in the Optical Democracy of Such Landscapes All Preference is Made Whimsical and a Man and a Rock Become Endowed with Unguessed Kinships As if the Very Sediment of Things Contained Yet Some Residue of Sentience They Rode Through a Region Where Iron Will Not Rust Nor Tin Tarnish Moons, Coins, Men Unspeakable and Calamitous Beyond Reckoning His Eyes Were Dull and There Was Fear in Them and There Was Something Else All the Creatures That Had Been at Vigil With Him in the Night Were Gone If He Gave Thanks to Any God At All It Was Ill-Timed for the Country Was Not Done With Him And in That Cauterized Waste They Wandered Aimlessly for Weeks Pursuing Rumor and Shadow Whatever in Creation Exists Without My Knowledge Exists Without My Consent And They Rode Through Rain and Hail and Rain Again If God Meant to Interfere in the Degeneracy of Mankind Would He Not Have Done So By Now They are Rumors and Ghosts in This Land and They are Much Revered He is Broken Before a Frozen God and He Will Never Find His Way He Went Away to the West and He Himself Became a Killer of Men And He Seemed Much Satisfied With the World, as if His Counsel Had Been Sought at its Creation Contemptuous of Stone and Silence and Time Itself But I Would Never Shoot a Wolf and I Know Other Men of the Same Sentiments It May Well Be That the Voice of the Almighty Speaks Most Profoundly in Such Beings as Lives in Silence Themselves The Gifts of the Almighty are Weighed and Parceled Out in a Scale Peculiar to Himself There's Little Equity in the Lord's Gifts Catabasis As if He Like Others Before Him Had Stumbled Upon a Place Where Something Inimical Lived And Soon All the Wild Menagerie of That Country Grew Mute He Speaks in Stones and Trees, the Bones of Things No Sleep 'Till Santa Rita The Awful Darkness Inside the World A Place Where All Was Darkness and Without Definition Et De Ceo Se Mettent En Le Pays (And with that they set out into the country) Los Heréticos Nothing Moved in That Purgatorial Waste Save Carnivorous Birds They Struggled All Day Across a Terra Damnata of Smoking Slag Larval to Some Unreckonable Being From a Hell More Horrible Yet Than the Brimstone Land of Christian Reckoning Death Seemed the Most Prevalent Feature of the Landscape His Head Was in Torment and His Tongue Swollen With Thirst His Eyes Lay Dark and Tunneled in a Caved and Haunted Face A Man's At Odds to Know His Mind 'Cause His Mind is Aught He Has to Know It With You Can Find Meanness in the Least of Creatures, But When God Made Man the Devil Was At His Elbow Days of Riding Where There Rode No Soul Save He This is a Hungry Country No Sleep 'Till Nacogdoches His Origins Are Become Remote As Is His Destiny And Not Again in All the World's Turning Will There Be Terrains So Wild and Barbaric Also, I decided to quit prancing about with these silhouette shots of Xenomorphs and Predators and other wimpy creatures; I've finally found the ultimate in alien menaces for the Lone Ranger to battle: Last edited by Monte Williams; 10-12-2016 at 12:28 AM.. |
10-12-2016, 09:15 PM | #45 |
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Love it love it love it.
I basically view the Judge as an avatar of War and the worst of humanity and that is why he will live forever. that being said I guess I was in the frame of mind for it. but the Writer does have a flair for over the top in most of his works.
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10-12-2016, 09:50 PM | #46 |
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I think I'd find it all more palatable if his novels were merely short stories. Dude can turn a phrase, though.
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10-12-2016, 10:44 PM | #47 |
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oh yeah he should pump out a bunch of stephen king style short story books. and I'd savor everyone or maybe just a book of quotes.
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11-23-2016, 11:27 AM | #48 |
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The Ultimate Alien Menace—Prisma Collage by Monte Williams, on Flickr Each More Terrifying Than the Last by Monte Williams, on Flickr Deadite Lone Ranger by Monte Williams, on Flickr Old West Ash by Monte Williams, on Flickr Old West Ash II by Monte Williams, on Flickr Deadite Lone Ranger--Prisma by Monte Williams, on Flickr Because He Knows a Frightful Fiend Doth Close Behind Him Tread—Prisma by Monte Williams, on Flickr Yet in the End, He Knew, the Day Would Come and Things Would Play Out With Shocking Suddenness by Monte Williams, on Flickr Give Us This Day Our Daily Blood by Monte Williams, on Flickr |
11-23-2016, 11:58 AM | #49 |
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Whoa those are some kick @$$ pics Monte...
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