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Blood Meridian

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War Is the Father of Azal

The epilogue is extremely important and crucial to understanding all the themes I'm talking about. The essay was intended to be a direct follow-up to the previous essay and only focus on blood meridian but I ended up going off script War is the Father of Azal War is the patriarch of civilizations war has the power to build us up from the muck of nature and the heights of culture complex art, towering architecture stable institutions advanced science conversely war also holds the power to lay flourishing civilizations low to smite them in her hubris dismantle or they've built and handed over to a more worthy son to make civilization people must know how to make war some cultures are better than others at

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