Blood Meridian See the Child

A clockwork orange is about conditioning again post-war a conversation that was being had was could we if we had got hitler early enough could we have conditioned the evil out of him. The subject matter in blood meridian for example is quite violent what's interesting is blood meridian begins in the present tense and then morphs into the past tense so we get that circularity again great novels have a circularity where you get to the end and you have to go back to the beginning. There's another really violent modern book well there's american psycho by bret eastern ellis which begins with an epigraph from dostoevsky's notes from underground but this narrative begins abandon