Blood Meridian Now
Chapter by chapter analysis of the epic novel BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy. Co-hosts critic JVH and artist Candy Minx discuss everything Blood Meridian.
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Queer powder, brokeback malpais, merestone and a storytelling feat. We love Chapter 10. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for following us on Podbeam and Instagram and Substack. Don't be shy leave us a review...we can take it...even a bad one! Again we are so glad you are joining us on this adventure with the Glanton Gang.
"[…] scientific corporations might well become independent states and be enabled to undertake their ...
"A writer is a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into a radiant body of everliving life." Portrait of The Young Man As An Artist by James Joyce.
JVH and Candy discuss Chapter 9 of Blood Meridian including lice, louse, antiwarriors, inversions, alchemy and Chamberlain's source material MY CONFESSION.
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Welcome to our discussion of Chapter 8...thank you for listening!!! This is a bit of a long episode and we appreciate you for even beginning to listen to it. We found some concerns including sacrifice, ceremony, identity, capitalism, redistribution festivals, gambling, and even a brief hint at Moby Dick...we may or may not have got to them, ha!
"Hark ye yet again,—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pastebo...
Chapter 7 has so much for us to talk about!!! Like every chapter the synoptic headers can keep a feller up all night researching. We find many things here. Another chapter on blackness. Deaths of magic and the history of science. Legal motifs like crazy...some we didn't even get to. After all Cormac McCarthy had a few people close to him in law...so it shouldn't be a surprise he has words like "some vortex in that waste apposite to...
"for years now there had been no country here but the war."
“How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?”
Dispatches, Herr
Thank you for listening. Chapter 6 might not have many pages but we found a few things to think about JVH finds some source material. Candy changes lead into gold.
The phrase "in country" can be found in Michael Herr's brilliant book DISPATCHES. It's ...
"Allegories are in the realm of thought what ruins are in the realm of things." Walter Benjamin
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.” Georges Bataille
In this episode we talk about a few ideas and influences including T.S. Eliot, ...
The novel becomes quite exciting and seems to enter a different form of descriptives...why do we feel what we feel reading this chapter?
Ready. Set. Action.
Simile, allegory, pagination, tools and hints of a secret architecture.
We forgot to mention how funny the line from Hayward praying for rain was..."Lord, we are dried to jerky down here." And goddammit it rained!
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Very little has been written about the epigraphs in Blood Meridian, especially looking at all three of them together. We fix that.
Are the epigraphs misleading? Are the epigraphs another example of the art of misdirection?
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Bohme April 24, 1575-November 17, 1624 (another 117 or 1117?)
Shakespeare April 23...
Welcome to Chapter 3 and we are so glad you made it this far! Thank you!
This chapter offers a few moments of foreshadowing including the quote for this episode by the Mennonite...who hints at something we will hear from the judge and has become an iconic quote from this novel, "War was always here, before man was, war waited for him." Is that the wrath God has lying waiting?
We think about the humour, and developing prose, and his...
We are so glad you found us. Candy's husband said there are lots of podcasts on Blood Meridian and she replied yeah but any with JVH and a woman's perspective? He said you two are like Deadpool and Wolverine. Who is who?
Welcome to our discussion of Chapter Two in Blood Meridian. We would love to hear from you! Find us on social media or email us:
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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Blood Meridian into the culture JVH and Candy introduce the two titles of the novel, some historical context and share their love of this epic novel. This is a special bonus episode to support the main body of this podcast which is going through each novel per episode. The plan is to publish a new episode on consecutive episodes every week. And of course some special bonus episodes because every...
Welcome to our podcast dedicated to the epic novel by Cormac McCarthy and his masterpiece BLOOD MERIDIAN. We are so excited to reach out to other fans of this novel and talk everything we can about it. We are planning on one chapter per episode...with some extra episodes thrown in for fun. We are dropping this first episode on Feb 8 to align with the Alpha Centaurids meteor shower.
Thank you for listening and we would love to hear ...
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