Eric Hultgren’s Reviews > Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West > Status Update

The kid no referred to as the man when confronted by actual kids, one of whom he kills

This chapter ends with him trying to help an old woman only to realize she is long dead. He tries to help some pilgrim travelers and leaves them thinking they will be fine only to find them dead.

The mystery is that there is no mystery. Judge gets real philosophical in this section, some of this is McCarthy and some is also just the insanity of the judge. Like in the crossing you get real philosophical thought from McCarthy mixed with nonsense.

Very nietzche for a minute and then all morals and all else is subsumed under death, not very nietzchian

War endures. Young men love it and old men love it in them

Started it again. I’m a little clearer on expectations and enjoying it a bit more. Finally got a chapter with the kid doing something when he doesn’t kill the injured man. Then gets stuck in a blizzard. Great nature writing of course.

Bit of a slog. Very dark for the sake of being dark. Prose is at times gorgeous and captivating in describing the landscape and at times overly repetitive in the long sentence format. Nice to compare the judge to Anton chugar and see McCarthy explore death and evil differently. The landscape is the main character just as violent and bleak as the gang.