Were dead baby tree and the corpse sodomy REALLY necessary?
How else would we have known the depths of Man's depravity?
sure. both really happened.
>>24792822Source?
>>24792767You dont like historical accuracy?
>>24792861I was there
>>24792861Read a book called Scalp Dance. First hand accounts of Indians torturing, enslaving, raping, and mutilating white settlers, women and children too. There are even some daguerrotypes. Corncob didnt use this book as research but it's a good companion piece for Blood Meridian.
>Bood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the WestCouldn't he just decide on one title? A bit entitled, don't you think?
Going through this one and not feeling it yet. It's celebrated a lot but I don't get the appeal. It's "random bad things: the book" so far. It's not dull yet only scene I liked for now was Judge making gunpowder.
>>24792767For me the most interesting part of this book are all the tarot references, and the other literary and philosophical allusions. It's like a game to find them all.
>>24794685That is the best section undoubtedly; kino of the highest order. I won't give too many details if you've not finished it but I greatly enjoy the denouement as it were, not the epilogue where it fully concludes but the conclusion of the Glanton gang, it is very tense and I enjoyed it a lot.
>>24792817You can't have much of an imagination if this sort of shock schlock is what you think of when you think of the depths of depravity.
>When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.Woah...
>>24792767Read The Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens. McCarthy attempts to portray the brutality and horror of this time period, but it pales in comparison to the realities. The Comanche and Apache in particular were especially heinous in their treatment of captives and combatants.
>>24794685drop it and pick up The Crossing insteadit's more like what you think you want
>>24792767when I first read the comanche attack, i thought okay this is an exaggeration right? Apparently he toned it down. War use to be genocide looting rape and a little torture for shits and giggles.
>>24795642>>24795585>>24793023But is an actual dead baby tree a documented reality???
>>24795695May’ve been recounted in Samuel Chamberlain’s “My Confession: the Recollections of a Rogue” (written from 1855-1861), a major source for the book, by a man who went traveling with notorious scalper/soldier/outlaw John Joel Glanton. Glanton is a real historical figure if you didn’t know, and that book of Chamberlain’s is also where McCarthy got the description of Judge Holden, but obviously made even more fantastical in parts for the story.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joel_GlantonAs others are saying in this thread, the brutality of this time period and of various Indian tribes like the Comanches or Apaches against the settlers is recounted in history, it’s not entirely unrealistic. I didn’t read Chamberlain and looking it upThe dead baby tree may come from McCarthy’s imagination, not directly recounted historically. But, again, it’s not entirely out of the realm of possibility.
>>24795695John C Cremony describes finding infant bodies strewn in the mesquite bushes as a warning in his book Life Among the Apaches. McCarthy definitely embellished with a full tree strewn with dead babies, but the fiction is certainly grounded in reality. This isn't remotely surprising if you've read anything about the western tribes.
