Blood Meridian
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| + | “The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."--''[[Blood Meridian]]'' (1985) | ||
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| + | “… the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”--''[[Blood Meridian]]'' (1985) | ||
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| '''''Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West''''' is a [[1985 in literature|1985]] [[Epic (genre)|epic]] novel by American author [[Cormac McCarthy]], classified under the [[Western (genre)|Western]], or sometimes the [[Revisionist Western|anti-Western]], genre. | '''''Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West''''' is a [[1985 in literature|1985]] [[Epic (genre)|epic]] novel by American author [[Cormac McCarthy]], classified under the [[Western (genre)|Western]], or sometimes the [[Revisionist Western|anti-Western]], genre. | ||
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| + | *[[Blood]] | ||
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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning."--Blood Meridian (1985) “… the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”--Blood Meridian (1985) |
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Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre.
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