06. blood meridian
Im making my way through that 5hr video breaking down Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy and my god, bless Wendigoo’s heart and hard work. This video so detailed and his passion for the book is palpable. I know I wouldn’t be able to make it through the book because of the graphic descriptions of violence. I don’t think I could stomach it. I am very thankful for the video and all the other analyses, reviews, quotes available so I can appreciate it in this way. Surely the impact is not as hard as a first time reader, but I feel the awe nonetheless. The poetics and visuals of McCarthy’s description of the desert as this otherworldly planet is amazing…
“The sun was just down and to the west lay reefs of bloodred clouds up out of which rose little desert nighthawks like fugitives from some great fire at the earth's end”
“Stars were falling across the sky myriad and random, speeding along brief vectors from their origins in night to their destinies in dust and nothingness”
“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”
Like that is art, fuck. My fixation for the next little while… I’ll be in my little rabbit hole!