Episode IV: What's He A Judge Of

[@NoNameNo.5]

“Anything that exists in this world without my knowledge, does so without my consent.” The Judge

[@geordiejones5618]

One of the most outrageously arrogant statements I've ever encountered in any fiction media, but it's absolutely impeccable characterization. Only someone like the Judge could say something like that with such conviction.

[@ricardoaguirre6126]

The chapter that features Hueco Tanks has especially stuck with me since im from El paso and have been there a few times.

[@jeanetteroller5103]

I just finished reading Blood Meridian for the first time and found these lectures. The Judge's note keeping reminds of Madame Defarge's knitting in A Tale of Two Cities. Her knitting was a way of recording and planning the extermination of the upper class. The female psychopath seeks revenge because it is her nature, the male psychopath is simply violent because it is his nature. Just some thoughts that went through my mind while I was out walking today.

[@garrettelgin4742]

The parallels with Judge Holden and Milton’s Satan are very strong when Holden makes the gunpowder

[@marqpsmythe228]

Great delivery. Like Kierkegaard or Nietzsche brought up to be pastors: yours is the cadence of an Oklahoma Parson, preaching a sermon, much more edifying than any I ever heard in church. 🙏🏼

[@AmericanGwyn]

Dang! Thank you!

[@jerm5466]

Excellent video, one of the better ones I’ve seen on this book

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you!

[@jerm5466]

@@AmericanGwyn no, thank you! I listened to your lectures for hours upon hours last night. It’s so awesome having such great lectures to accompany an incredible book.

[@gddess9502]

great job. these are all so good.

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you!

[@chutzpahclang5485]

It occurs to me that when the kid is having a fever dream of the counterfeiter making a coin while judge Holden watches and passes judgement on its creation, the counterfeiter (a stand in for the author maybe) is making a coin with the likeness of the kid himself on it in place of a president, to capture him, as was portended by the story the judge tells of the indian who asks him to help hide his own portrait in the cave in the mountains lest somebody were to mess with it, which the judge says he helped him to do. The judge is taking control of the kid, had his likeness captured and minted on a coin which he keeps with him, he steals the coin as he steals the coins off the pastor at the start

[@davidbowman9917]

Can we get the audio levels up? If it gets fixed someone let me know. *Audio levels appear to be fixed. Good Stuff!*

[@garthstruddlefudd8408]

It's called a volume knob or button.

[@davidbowman9917]

@@garthstruddlefudd8408 I maxed both of mine. It’s been changed

[@Th3BigBoy]

​@@garthstruddlefudd8408 Does it make you feel good to be snide for no reason?

[@garthstruddlefudd8408]

@@Th3BigBoy does your mother know you're gay?

[@Th3BigBoy]

@garthstruddlefudd8408 I didn't tell her about your leaking orifice yet. Does your father know that I pinned you down and thrashed that ass?

[@slave_to_cinema]

So when Cormac says "and the night does not end" does he mean that evil will endure as long as there are beings or men/people who are like Judge that are a king of counterfit? And is counterfit and the cold forger a metaphor for the false? In relation to the truth of the world?

[@smartgamer8667]

I love your analysis, also love your voice I could listen to you talk for hours, what are your top 5 favorite/best books?

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you very much! My Personal Top Five: 1. Blood Meridian 2. Absalom, Absalom! 3. Moby-Dick 4. Lolita 5. The Son (Philipp Meyer)

[@lucashawks2160]

@@AmericanGwyn I'm reading Absalom now and find it incredibly difficult. I have to read the SparkNotes just to understand what is happening. I've not had this problem with other Faulkner books.

[@AmericanGwyn]

@@lucashawks2160 It's a difficult book, but brilliant and highly rewarding.

[@dragonborn7273]

But wouldn't it be more fitting that the Kid is the counterfeiter? Think when it the Man meets the Judge in the bar and how the Judge speaks about how the Man broke the pact. How he and he alone did not partake in the the coven of war and bloodshed. The Kid was attempting to fake his way through the company and was himself a counterfeit that the Judge knew and attempted to make "legal tender" out of.

[@ElliotSpencer-fz8ov]

Howdy I'm Welsh gwyn. Hir oes ir hen iaith.

[@AmericanGwyn]

Don’t understand a word of that, but welcome! 😂😂😂

[@0608-z4z]

thank you

[@AmericanGwyn]

YW!

[@TheZero_Files]

Is this Daniel day Lewis speaking? lol

[@StuartAnderson-xl4bo]

He is the personification of war its obvious. War was here before men the book says the judge waits on a rock for the men. War judges all men, each man had met the judge before as they had been to War before etc etc

[@garthstruddlefudd8408]

Was the judge erasing all factual evidence of God on earth?