Episode 10: Voidcast #10 – Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian
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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western novel "Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West":
"Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian is an epic novel that traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world in which the market for Indian scalps is thriving."
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VOIDCAST LINKS:
Voidcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/veganvoidcast
Voidcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/veganvoidcast
Voidcast email: veganvoidcast@protonmail.com
Voidcast channel on the Vegan Antinatalist Club Discord server: https://discord.gg/VFkUJKJ2Wb
Carlos on the Vegan Week / Enough of the Falafel podcast:
51- "But the brain needs meat"
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/vegan-week/51-but-the-brain-needs-meat-2I6rVNMaQOT/
52- When vegans go looking for trouble: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/vegan-week/52-when-vegans-go-looking-KI29M6FLVbz/
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LITERATURE:
– Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (25th anniversary edition). New York: Vintage International 1992. ISBN 978-0-679-72875-7.
LINKS:
• excerpt from Paul Valéry's "The Yalu" (1895) in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/25/archives/the-wisdom-of-the-orient-western-civilization-destroys-the-fathers.html
• Jacob Böhme: Von sechs theosophischen Punkten (1620), 9.13.: http://www.boehme.pushpak.de/sechs-punkte/kapitel_09.html
• Samuel E. Chamberlain: My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue. Introduction and Postscript by Roger Butterfield. New York: Harper & Brothers 1956. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226260
• @Wendigoon's 5-hour summary and analysis of Blood Meridian: https://youtu.be/eu6STuj4njw
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0:00:00 (intro)
0:01:27 Carlos' introduction to Cormac McCarthy
0:07:16 Blood Meridian: blurb
0:11:01 three epigraphs
0:18:22 the kid (ch. 1)
0:25:30 the hermit (ch. 2)
0:29:04 the filibusters and the Comanche attack (ch. 3–4)
0:33:41 arrest and the Glanton gang (ch. 5–6)
0:38:05 Judge Holden
0:48:37 They rode on...
0:50:17 the judge on raising children (ch. 11)
0:50:53 the judge on moral law (ch. 17)
0:56:09 the gang's habits and standards
1:04:25 the kid meeting the judge again (ch. 23)
1:07:57 epilogue
1:11:34 concluding thoughts
1:13:05 an unfilmable story?
1:14:55 (outro)
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intro / outro music: TrackTribe – Lost At Sea
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