A western novel at its core, it meets, and then some, all the prerequisites of the brand. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most upsetting undercurrent. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the hazards of privatization of army and law enforcement. Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism, poetry, story, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by atrocious characters that are still definitely plausible in all of their over the top malignant.
The banality of this hell world maybe is its most upsetting undercurrent. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. The outsourcing of the struggle in Chihuahua against the Apaches finished in disaster. Shades of todays Blackwater and non-public mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the US. The historic threads, good and malignant, the mythology and fact.
Shades of todays Blackwater and private mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the US.
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