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The Dark Room: Blood Meridian w/ Aaron Gwyn

Art of Darkness

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The Secrets of the World Are Forever Hidden

Aaron Carroll: I don't know if I mentioned it yet, but we really do want to know who the hell you think the narrator of this book is. Like Loki, like Lucifer, he resents God's omnipotence and omniscience and wishes to seize as much of it as he can. As he inscribes his own book with his natural findings in the manner of a Joseph Banks,. The book is consistently referred to as a ledger, not as a journal for recording knowledge, but as a ledger where accounts are totaled and settled. It was an old waco whose story told them that Webster's feelings were another nature entirely. And he said 'I'd not have it

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