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this line cracked me up: “Patriotic toasts were drunk, the governor [of Chihuahua, Mexico]’s aides raising their glasses to Washington and Franklin and the Americans responding with yet more of their own country’s heroes, ignorant alike of diplomacy and any name at all from the pantheon of their sister republic.”
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Kathy
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let’s be so fucking real. what is the point of Any of this.
— Oct 11, 2026 06:06PM
Kathy
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struggling with the racist depiction of Native southwest peoples in this. see this source for deconstruction of the racist portrayal of the Comanche: Fowles, Severin, Arterberry, Lindsay Montgomery, Atherton, Heather (2017), "Comanche New Mexico: The Eighteenth Century", in New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta, Boulder University Press of Colorado, pp. 158–160.
— Oct 11, 2026 12:07PM
Kathy
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while the prose is gorgeous (a stunning, unusual voice), the themes are bleak and cynical in the extreme. mccarthy seems incurious as to the causes of violence; it seems that he’s the kind of christian that believes that ontological evil is real, and it possesses human beings, and therefore there’s no point in examining the “why.” maybe the remainder will prove me wrong.
— Oct 10, 2026 08:03PM