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Blood Meridian NowEt in Arcadio ego: Chapter 10Queer powder, brokeback malpais, merestone and a storytelling feat. We love Chapter 10. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for following us on Podbeam and Instagram and Substack. Don't be shy leave us a review...we can take it...even a bad one! Again we are so glad you are joining us on this adventure with the Glanton Gang.
"[…] scientific corporations might well become independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world […] The world might, in fact, be transformed into a human zoo, a zoo so intelligently managed that its i...2025-07-231h 40Blood Meridian NowTHAT HALLUCINATORY VOID: Chapter 9"A writer is a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into a radiant body of everliving life." Portrait of The Young Man As An Artist by James Joyce.
JVH and Candy discuss Chapter 9 of Blood Meridian including lice, louse, antiwarriors, inversions, alchemy and Chamberlain's source material MY CONFESSION.
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2025-07-061h 18Blood Meridian NowGRAVEYARD DEAD: Chapter 8 Blood MeridianWelcome to our discussion of Chapter 8...thank you for listening!!! This is a bit of a long episode and we appreciate you for even beginning to listen to it. We found some concerns including sacrifice, ceremony, identity, capitalism, redistribution festivals, gambling, and even a brief hint at Moby Dick...we may or may not have got to them, ha!
"Hark ye yet again,—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldi...2025-05-241h 45Blood Meridian NowHICCIUS DOCCIUS: Chapter 7Chapter 7 has so much for us to talk about!!! Like every chapter the synoptic headers can keep a feller up all night researching. We find many things here. Another chapter on blackness. Deaths of magic and the history of science. Legal motifs like crazy...some we didn't even get to. After all Cormac McCarthy had a few people close to him in law...so it shouldn't be a surprise he has words like "some vortex in that waste apposite to which mans transit and his reckonings alike lay abrogate."
We read a couple of listeners comments too...2025-04-262h 11Blood Meridian NowIN COUNTRY: Chapter 6"for years now there had been no country here but the war."
“How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?”
Dispatches, Herr
Thank you for listening. Chapter 6 might not have many pages but we found a few things to think about JVH finds some source material. Candy changes lead into gold.
The phrase "in country" can be found in Michael Herr's brilliant book DISPATCHES. It's also in Dennis Lehane's novel SMALL MERCIES....
“Right now the sun...2025-04-051h 33Blood Meridian NowA CROSSROADS IN THE WASTE: Chapter 5, Blood Meridian"Allegories are in the realm of thought what ruins are in the realm of things." Walter Benjamin
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.” Georges Bataille
In this episode we talk about a few ideas and influences including T.S. Eliot, a little about allegory, the Baroque of Walter Benjamin, the Mexican basin, bats, climate, geography (hell) the strained relationship of S...2025-03-181h 12Blood Meridian NowTHE GEOLOGY OF FEAR: Chapter 4, Blood MeridianThe novel becomes quite exciting and seems to enter a different form of descriptives...why do we feel what we feel reading this chapter?
Ready. Set. Action.
Simile, allegory, pagination, tools and hints of a secret architecture.
We forgot to mention how funny the line from Hayward praying for rain was..."Lord, we are dried to jerky down here." And goddammit it rained!
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2025-03-061h 22Blood Meridian NowTHE PARATEXTS; The Epigraphs , A Special Bonus EpisodeVery little has been written about the epigraphs in Blood Meridian, especially looking at all three of them together. We fix that.
Are the epigraphs misleading? Are the epigraphs another example of the art of misdirection?
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Bohme April 24, 1575-November 17, 1624 (another 117 or 1117?)
Shakespeare April 23, 1564-April 23, 1616 (like the kid born and died on same date?)
2025-02-241h 16Blood Meridian NowTHE WRATH OF GOD LIES WAITING: Chapter 3Welcome to Chapter 3 and we are so glad you made it this far! Thank you!
This chapter offers a few moments of foreshadowing including the quote for this episode by the Mennonite...who hints at something we will hear from the judge and has become an iconic quote from this novel, "War was always here, before man was, war waited for him." Is that the wrath God has lying waiting?
We think about the humour, and developing prose, and historical aspects to this chapter.
Let us know what you think of the podcast b...2025-02-151h 09Blood Meridian NowA RUINOUS CHURCH: Chapter TwoWe are so glad you found us. Candy's husband said there are lots of podcasts on Blood Meridian and she replied yeah but any with JVH and a woman's perspective? He said you two are like Deadpool and Wolverine. Who is who?
Welcome to our discussion of Chapter Two in Blood Meridian. We would love to hear from you! Find us on social media or email us:
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Please consider writing a review of our podcast. We will randomly pick a review and send a gift! Good or bad reviews! :) Thank y...2025-02-081h 01Blood Meridian NowEVENING REDNESS: Introduction to Blood Meridian...Special Bonus Episode!!!Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Blood Meridian into the culture JVH and Candy introduce the two titles of the novel, some historical context and share their love of this epic novel. This is a special bonus episode to support the main body of this podcast which is going through each novel per episode. The plan is to publish a new episode on consecutive episodes every week. And of course some special bonus episodes because everyone loves some extra.
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...2025-02-0857 minBlood Meridian NowOLD SIDNEY: Chapter OneWelcome to our podcast dedicated to the epic novel by Cormac McCarthy and his masterpiece BLOOD MERIDIAN. We are so excited to reach out to other fans of this novel and talk everything we can about it. We are planning on one chapter per episode...with some extra episodes thrown in for fun. We are dropping this first episode on Feb 8 to align with the Alpha Centaurids meteor shower.
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