
Blood Meridian
Astral Flight Simulation
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The Comanche Attack in Mexico
McCarthy took all this from these true accounts that's why he had them dressed up this way now I focus on this scene because it's one of the best scenes but also because the book is kind of famous for this scene. It kind of sets the stage for what you're in for for the rest of the book as they wander around northern Mexico looking for Indians to kill and scalp. They get into different situations or different settings and sceneries which are just as absurd and just as hellish and nightmarish as that one are over and over and over again for the whole book.
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