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Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)

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The Finality of Violence

There's something here about the finality of violence. Violence unto death renders a judgment which nullifies all other judgments as his point. When you die, your argument has reached its conclusion. This is the way no one can argue against it. But again, I just want to emphasize the fact that the agency is not and it's not destiny busting. All of that imagery with them, they're being driven by the sun across the desert and it's like their dolls and raggedy men and they don't. The special irony of the book or the judge's thesis, it's that submission to destiny in the sense of the most high stakes conflicts,.The results of high stakes conflicts

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