Lecture on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Part 6

[@rjfarris8324]

Please keep feeding my Blood Meridian addiction please. You’re my favorite creator I’ve found that makes videos on this book and I need more.

[@DaleMontdale-xd1mc]

Redundant redundancy....lol jk all love.

[@AmericanGwyn]

TY!

[@fortytwogallonsofforestgre8085]

Thank you so much for these free lectures, I've absolutely loved listening to them

[@AmericanGwyn]

Ye welcome!

[@CaravanCzar]

This definitely makes me miss college

[@fbalien5417]

Same

[@billyparham630]

this is a blessing, i personally found a lot of value in the dialogue between the lecturer and the students. thanks to you all

[@jm-ww7707]

I hope that this recent interest in Blood Meridian continues to rise I finished reading this book a couple of months and I'm happy to have found this channel I love it

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you! Really glad you connected with it!

[@ProudGirlDadX2]

I remember the first time I read that ending, it took me a few moments to realize that I hadn't taken a breath since I started that final scene. Unbelievable. I can personally recommend that Wendigoon video to everyone. It's about 5 hours long and I've watched it many times, as I have watched these. I'd recommend watching that before watching this video TBH, as I think the insight here is a step above. This is some of the greatest Blood Meridian/Cormac McCarthy content I've ever come across, and I've consumed enough of it to fill the grand canyon multiple times

[@CaravanCzar]

I stumbled across the Wendigoon videos first, having never heard of him, then listened to the book on this website (YT) for free, then listened to this amazing series of lectures. I highly recommend all three

[@DaleMontdale-xd1mc]

These are carrying me through my curr....oh that's what the first guy said. I binged your whole channel. Please keep feeding my obsessive compulsive behavior!

[@hrabanus]

I had bought blood meridian about a year ago but didn't dare to read it. I never felt "ready" for it. Then, on a vacation in May this year, I picked up "The Road" in a book shop; it was the only decent English book they had. Definitely not a holiday-pageturner for the beach, but I was intrigued. Now I felt ready for Blood Meridian, read it and was deeply impressed. Your lectures deepen my understanding and I want to read it again. And then again. Thanks for putting them online!

[@-loveless-]

Really appreciate you making these lectures public.

[@acaracaraorange7685]

I actually put this book down about half way through last year because I thought it was overly gratuitous, but it had been sitting at the back of my mind for a while. This series of lectures actually convinced me to go back & reread from the beginning & I'm glad I did & hearing other interpretations of the words helped & I thank you & your students for that 😊

[@T.K...]

You are a wonderful lecturer. That end of Blood Meridian always gives me goosebumps.

[@adonismeetschrist9248]

This series is the best thing on KZbin right now

[@hardcoremutineer]

I’ve listened to a lot of people discuss this novel. I think your interpretation and discussion is the most compelling one I’ve heard. Thank you professor.

[@cdespejo]

Wonderful series!

[@AmericanGwyn]

@@cdespejo thank you!!!

[@serbryndenshiversthecool5928]

Thank you for this content. It's getting me through both my jobs, just as Cormac did. You're doing God's work. And we all appreciate it

[@AmericanGwyn]

The judge smiled.

[@slave_to_cinema]

Really enjoyin these and the humor. I shared Lecture 1 on my cormac facebook group.

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you!

[@xduwu1865]

these are carrying me thru my current bout of manic depression. thank you sir

[@FearOfTheDarkS312]

I love how this image represents the almost inhuman nature of the judge in a palpable form, like we’re looking through the ether to see what he truly is

[@someokiedude9549]

This was great. You got some sharp students in your classroom. Gets me all hopeful for the future. Also shows that we're not all dummies in my generation.

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Thanks you for clearing up the epilogue. I kinda suspected it was fence posts but the bones always threw me off. I kept thinking maybe an archaeological dig haha. But I get now that it’s the bones of the Buffalo. Good lecture series and those kids were really into it

[@robinlewis8101]

I finished the novel (my first time reading it) two days ago and haven't been able to focus on any other book since. But your lectures here (after finishing the novel)and your SUBSTACK pieces (while i was reading the novel) are invaluable companions, as I don't really know who else I (a woman) could talk to about this with. (Btw, at least one other podcast out there about BM is two guys just kind of enjoying hearing themselves talk; I stopped listening to them; they clearly don't have the chops...) I am seriously considering joining in on AoD's Bookends with you on 12/3...But I'm a bit worried about posing any dumb (eg Franco) questions... You've got some bright young students in your class! (Makes me miss college, tho i never had a teacher like you!)

[@rossrevell]

Really enjoyed this

[@joshuandrewr]

I'm convinced there's little reason to believe The Judge is actually materially present in this final scene.

[@nelsonsmith6702]

Do you know the name of this painting? Great lecture.

[@rj5150]

It's AI generated

[@92sammyp]

When the judge tells the traveler story by the fire to the Glanton gang is that related to the young boy "the man" kills before walking into the final bar for his reunion with the judge? I remember one of the boy's friends says after he's been shot something to the effect of, "it's not his fault he's crazy mister, his father was hit over the head by a maniac and buried in the woods." I couldn't help but make that connection considering it ends the penultimate scene, providing some sense of closure before the final confrontation with the judge. Does anybody know if the two were meant to be connected, or just a coincidence?

[@_.Sparky._]

Do u have any info on this artwork. It’s incredibly beautiful

[@sterlingjared]

Anyone else occasionally think of Half-Life's G-Man as a Judge character? Would be a good AI speech generation - Judge dialogue with G-Man's voice.

[@josiahcmiller]

A counterfeit. Very fitting.

[@jeremyvassallo3914]

Just a thought that maybe the jidge saw the kid as a potential "ultimate practitioner of the trade".(That trade being war) The kid was born of vioelnce and death (his mum dies in childbirth) and has been pursuing violence for his 15 years. He's an amazing shot and despite his youth managea to always survive. The kid's rejection of full bloodthirst and the judge himself offends the judge because he sees the kid as having so much potential. P319 "hear me , man. I spoke in thr desert for you and you only and you turned a dead ear to me.".

[@speedy2davey]

Not to defend the guy but he had one term to the other's two which would be less accumulated stress. Damned fine listening to your uploads on such a great book. Hope the movie turns out as good as it could be for a film adaption.

[@lottoguy6457]

I wish this guy would read the audio book

[@t.z2359]

Do we ever see the judg participate in the atrocities outside of when he saved the Glanton Gang? Before and after he shows up, but I dont remember him ever being part of the raids, out side of the volcano.

[@lanegarrett7220]

These are good

[@darkhobo]

I found it interesting that the kid is able to evade the judge for those years, then the night he kills a kid, he runs into The Judge again. And it leads to his death. Someone smarter than I could tell you why, I just noticed that it happened that way. Maybe because before that he only killed in self defense. Though you could argue killing that kid was also self defense, but it seems like he could have avoided killing him IMO, he knew that kid wouldnt have killed him because he knows he wouldnt have in that situation and he knows they are similar I dont know. Im just speculating here.

[@Lemsford]

They rode on.

[@MrManoish]

Dude, look at this image!

[@penelopegreene]

No, but Wendigoon was righteous that particular day, tho'...

[@SladeOb]

The devil is the great mimic. Holden is the judge of representation. So if he's not the devil here then cormac is.

[@wolfler_vii]

Is The Judge really Manifest Destiny made flesh?

[@AmericanGwyn]

@@wolfler_vii Manifester.

[@JMarshelMc]

Thank you for posting these lectures. I have chosen to believe that the Judge does not kill the kid/man, and that the Judge isn’t actually present “in the flesh” during the final scene. The Man/Judge conversation is the Man’s internal dialogue. The kid successfully resisted the Judge’s philosophy for all those years, but in the end he is consumed by them. He becomes the Judge, and the ritual blood letting is not the Judge assaulting the Man, but the Man assaulting the kid (bear girl) in the Jakes. He is consumed by the Judge metaphorically. feel this to be true, and it’s even more upsetting than the consensus agreement about ending.

[@melanisticmandalorian]

This is so good, please put up more lectures you do in classes.

[@cometojesus6983]

Blood Meridian

[@the_1ce_1s_n1ce]

The judge would’ve voted for Biden

[@melanisticmandalorian]

I will also never go to the bathroom in comfort ever again.

[@melanisticmandalorian]

I only know of Blood Meridian due to Wendigoon lol

[@rossrevell]

Really enjoyed this

[@AmericanGwyn]

Thank you!