On Feb 6, 1:41=A0pm, Tom Sutpen wrote:
> On Feb 5, 10:13=A0pm, calvin wrote:
> > ...=A0The Cormac
> > McCarthy book , I gather, is an extreme bash-America book.
> > I already know the Native Americans were done wrong, so
> > I'll skip that ...
>
> ******
> No, no. Nein, Nyet.
>
> 'Blood Meridian' is governed by no ideology; it is not a simplistic,
> 'Soldier Blue' retread. It's an insanely violent, almost psychotic
> vision of the Indian wars (where the Native Americans are every bit as
> bloodthirsty and predacious as the Visiting team) rendered in
> ceaselessly majestic prose. F'r'instance:
>
> "He watched the fire and if he saw portents there it was much the same
> to him. He would live to look upon the western sea and he was equal to
> whatever might follow, for he was complete at every hour. Whether his
> history should run concomitant with men and nations, whether it should
> cease. He'd long forsworn all weighing of consequence and allowing as
> he did that men's destinies are ever given, yet he usurped to contain
> within him all that he would ever be in the world and all that the
> world would be to him, and be his charter written in the urstone
> itself he claimed agency and said so, and he'd drive the remorseless
> sun on to its final endarkenment as if he'd ordered it all ages since,
> before there were paths anywhere, before there were men or suns to go
> upon them."
>
> I recommend it.
Thanks for the correction and the quote. |