Holy Shit.

[razorsmile]

A thought just struck me like a Colt Walker Revolver round to the brain: A post-singularity "Blood Meridian".

In other news, I've decided to make Cormac McCarthy my end-of-year reading project. His oeuvre could be the capstone on my way-past-52-books-challenge.

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[rezendi]

Blood Meridian is perhaps my favourite book ever.

Not quite for me, but then I haven't finished it yet.

[razorsmile]

Biblical as hell, innit? In every sense? :)

[derekcfpegritz]

Blood Meridian is my all-time favorite book. I will take that challenge!

The 52 book Challenge? As in reading 52 Books within the course of the year?

[razorsmile]

Really? You always struck me as more of a Suttree kinda guy :D

You know, one could easily an entire cottage industry based on figuring out what the hell Judge Holden really is.

Re: The 52 book Challenge? As in reading 52 Books within the course of the year?

[derekcfpegritz]

If I were Cornelius Suttree, I would've just killed myself and been done with it. But first I would've humped a watermelon, just because I can't see myself dying without first doing something terminably ridiculous like that!

Judge Holden is the Devil, yo. The vicious monster at the heart of the American soul. America is a country born in blood and endlessly hungry for blood, and Judge Holden is the literal embodiment of that eternal bloodlust. As long as there will be an America, there will be a Judge, dancing, dancing, dancing....

Re: The 52 book Challenge? As in reading 52 Books within the course of the year?

[razorsmile]

Heh. I actually haven't read Suttree yet, oddly enough. Now I've read the Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian, next up are Outer Dark, No Country for Old Men, Suttree and *then* The Road. In that order for reasons unknown to me.

Judge Holden is the Devil, yo.

Given the biblical style of the writing (and the two or three times he made wiseass comments whenever someone mentioned hell), that was the obvious choice. I like your "Holden is America" idea better.

Other things I thought he might be: Science, Progress, avatar of both, a literal Bodhisatva of violence, Amoral Rationalism, a fallen god of an older pantheon who sacrificed power level for lifespan, Gnostic God and even Old Testament God.