Spinning discusses te myth of the west, which takes a lot of forms. One of the ideas that gets me in Blood Meridian is a seeming contradiction between space and border. The novel explores what is far and what is close, but in a way the landscape doesn’t suggest a peaceful openness, an openness that evokes freedom. There is an awe striking effect to the description. A sense of menace. Distance as alienness.
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained in it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.
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LITERATURE: Endings
Oh…I’ve come to the sad part of a great book, within an eighth of an inch of the ending. I tend to measure everything visually; my husband laughs at my explanation of a low-flying jet plane into Bradley Airport as
LITERATURE: Focus on Blood Meridian
While The Great Lettuce Head focuses on space, I spent 335 pages focused on detail. This is my first reading of Blood Meridian, my first reading of Cormac McCarthyb s work. Maybe for me, my next reading will produce a different