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proximoception) wrote2013-05-13 12:05 pm
proximoception) wrote2013-05-13 12:05 pm
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For those who've read it, here's something that might help me: what do you most vividly remember, from Blood Meridian?
Because the overstuffing method would seem to lend itself to the simplification-through-intensity that Bloom sets against Yeats' intensity-through-simplification. But only if the same moments are similarly intense for most.
Might be some white noise here due to the novel's horrors. Like how everyone shrugs off most of what goes down in The Ring but no one shrugs at everything.
I'll write down my own answer now and post it later for comparison.
Because the overstuffing method would seem to lend itself to the simplification-through-intensity that Bloom sets against Yeats' intensity-through-simplification. But only if the same moments are similarly intense for most.
Might be some white noise here due to the novel's horrors. Like how everyone shrugs off most of what goes down in The Ring but no one shrugs at everything.
I'll write down my own answer now and post it later for comparison.
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I know that's not in the spirit of the question. But it sticks in my mind. Also "They rode on," over and over again.
More to your point, I think, that description of the appearance of the tatterdemalion army of Indians, all in the most fantastic costumes. A wedding dress, or veil, on one of them.
I seem to remember nothing else. Yet I claim to really like that book.
"Tree of babies" is what I'd expect to be the most common answer. When I read the book again for a class a few years ago, that's what everyone mentioned when they saw the book on the syllabus; I had completely forgotten that part.
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"They rode on" may even be more common than "in the afternoon they came (wherever)" which echoes The Lotos-Eaters. I don't think I've ever read a non-McCarthy Western, but I assume "them riding on" is a foundational genre trope? And I also assume he ignores almost all of the others.