Discuss Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
We'll probably take it slow and easy this month, there's a bit of ground to cover and I want to find some answers to some of the questions I have.
[center]Chapter 1
[b]Childhood in Tennessee - Runs away - New Orleans -
Fights - Is shot - To Galveston - Nacogdoches -
The Reverend Green - Judge Holden - An affray - Toadvine -
Burning of the hotel - Escape[/b][/center]
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt...
Anyone know what in the hell this next paragraph means?
[i]Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leonids they were called. God how the stars did fall. I looked for blackness, holes in the heavens. The Dipper stove.[/i]
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33 is the year the kid was born. My question mainly is who the was the the first person. I see it now as the father thinking to himself by the fire.
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oh, yes that makes more sense, thirty three.
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Read it a couple months ago. I might need to read it again.
Yup, it amazes me how he use these words magically. The first thing that came to my mind is the Big Dipper.
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i dunno, it thought it was the father talking, he was thirty three, the leonids (as i just googled) is a meteor shower of some sort, im not sure what the dipper stove is. So probably the meteor shower was going on while he was born and maybe the father was looking for holes in the heavens especially because the mother died giving birth and he needed to look somewhere... She did die giving birth to him right? or is that just a nother book entirely. As for symbolic reasons, i dunno. When i read it i only vaguely comprehended it, but i have a tendency to just keep reading and forget that i didn't understand a sentence or paragraph with this book because it seems like the writing style pushes me along almost, don't dawdle, there's more ahead type thing.