max’s Reviews > Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West > Status Update

very interesting thus far, the judge’s antics already greatly bemuse me, feel sympathy for the kid— seems his life is punctuated by starting via bloodshed, i foreshadow it will end that way as well

violence is depicted as an innate force. not something learned, rather smth primordial and inescapable. brutality is part of human nature, not merely circumstance, one’s appetite for violence is innate / instinctual