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Blood Meridian (1985)
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He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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... ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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... he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
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Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?
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My book or some other book said the judge. What is to be deviates no jot from the book wherein it's writ. How could it? It would be a false book and a false book is no book at all.
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See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.
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The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.
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The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
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In that sleep and in sleep to follow the judge did visit. Who would come other? A great shambling mutant, silent and serene. Whatever his antecedents, he was something wholly other than their sum, nor was there system by which to divide him back into his origins for he would not go. Whoever would seek out his history through what unraveling of loins and ledgerbooks must stand at last darkened and dumb at the shore of a void without terminus or origin and whatever science he might bring to bear upon the dusty primal matter blowing down out of the millennia will discover no trace of any ultimate atavistic egg by which to reckon his commencing.
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The judge looked about him. He was sat before the fire naked save for his breeches and his hands rested palm down upon his knees. His eyes were empty slots. None among the company harbored any notion as to what this attitude implied, yet so like an icon was he in his sitting that they grew cautious and spoke with circumspection among themselves as if they would not waken something that had better been left sleeping.
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Toadvine sat with his boots crossed before the fire. No man can acquaint himself with everything on this earth, he said.
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I could have been somebody in this world wasn't for him.
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Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
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What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
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For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it.
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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. — The judge.
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His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.
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I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky. —John Joel Glanton.
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The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. — The judge.
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They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up in sudden reaches flaring planewise and where the earth drained up into the sky at the edge of creation the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus until it cleared the unseen rim and sat squat and pulsing and malevolent behind them.
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A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
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The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.
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When God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
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Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it at every turn. A moral view can never be proven right or wrong by any ultimate test. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views. His very involvement in such a trial gives evidence of a new and broader view. — The judge
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When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
Willard Libby
Cormac McCarthy
Born:
July 20, 1933
Died:
June 13, 2023
(aged 89)
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