Episode 10: Voidcast #10 – Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian

In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western novel "Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West": "Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian is an epic novel that traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world in which the market for Indian scalps is thriving." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOIDCAST LINKS: Voidcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/veganvoidcast Voidcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/veganvoidcast Voidcast email: [e-mail] Voidcast channel on the Vegan Antinatalist Club Discord server: https://discord.gg/VFkUJKJ2Wb Carlos on the Vegan Week / Enough of the Falafel podcast: 51- "But the brain needs meat" https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/vegan-week/51-but-the-brain-needs-meat-2I6rVNMaQOT/ 52- When vegans go looking for trouble: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/vegan-week/52-when-vegans-go-looking-KI29M6FLVbz/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- LITERATURE: – Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West (25th anniversary edition). New York: Vintage International 1992. ISBN 978-0-679-72875-7. LINKS: • excerpt from Paul Valéry's "The Yalu" (1895) in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/03/25/archives/the-wisdom-of-the-orient-western-civilization-destroys-the-fathers.html • Jacob Böhme: Von sechs theosophischen Punkten (1620), 9.13.: http://www.boehme.pushpak.de/sechs-punkte/kapitel_09.html • Samuel E. Chamberlain: My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue. Introduction and Postscript by Roger Butterfield. New York: Harper & Brothers 1956. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226260 • @Wendigoon's 5-hour summary and analysis of Blood Meridian: https://youtu.be/eu6STuj4njw ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0:00:00 (intro) 0:01:27 Carlos' introduction to Cormac McCarthy 0:07:16 Blood Meridian: blurb 0:11:01 three epigraphs 0:18:22 the kid (ch. 1) 0:25:30 the hermit (ch. 2) 0:29:04 the filibusters and the Comanche attack (ch. 3–4) 0:33:41 arrest and the Glanton gang (ch. 5–6) 0:38:05 Judge Holden 0:48:37 They rode on... 0:50:17 the judge on raising children (ch. 11) 0:50:53 the judge on moral law (ch. 17) 0:56:09 the gang's habits and standards 1:04:25 the kid meeting the judge again (ch. 23) 1:07:57 epilogue 1:11:34 concluding thoughts 1:13:05 an unfilmable story? 1:14:55 (outro) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- intro / outro music: TrackTribe – Lost At Sea