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Apr. 5th, 2007 01:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptions: Yeah, right, so we're the sparks or at any rate our lives are. We're something implicit in matter released by the action of some engine of the God of this world, that flare upon the night and then are gone.
s: Now, either the Judge is that God, and fears the mystery inside things, and wants to free it by calculating and corrupting it, so that it becomes a tool of his or assimilated to his principle (the black, alien sky)...or the wandering driller is some still more foreign God interested in fire for its own sake and the Judge is the air desperately seeking to snuff out whatever sparks it can. Not because they'll start a blaze but because they are proof of some order beyond his ken, sharers of the life of fire.
s: McCarthy leaves it deliberately ambiguous, I think; just as it's ambiguous whether the Kid has any real victory over the Judge. He resists, but not firmly or in the name of some other way of doing things. And the Judge basically says, huh, okay, then I'll take you down the OTHER way. So the divinity/value of the spark is an open question. Dark, no?
s: Is life anything more than a brief eddy in the seagoing river of death, or is it something in itself, some other world.
s: Read the Border Trilogy and find out! And then explain it to me!
s: The most recent books have their own answers, but those don't mesh well even with each other.
s: Now, either the Judge is that God, and fears the mystery inside things, and wants to free it by calculating and corrupting it, so that it becomes a tool of his or assimilated to his principle (the black, alien sky)...or the wandering driller is some still more foreign God interested in fire for its own sake and the Judge is the air desperately seeking to snuff out whatever sparks it can. Not because they'll start a blaze but because they are proof of some order beyond his ken, sharers of the life of fire.
s: McCarthy leaves it deliberately ambiguous, I think; just as it's ambiguous whether the Kid has any real victory over the Judge. He resists, but not firmly or in the name of some other way of doing things. And the Judge basically says, huh, okay, then I'll take you down the OTHER way. So the divinity/value of the spark is an open question. Dark, no?
s: Is life anything more than a brief eddy in the seagoing river of death, or is it something in itself, some other world.
s: Read the Border Trilogy and find out! And then explain it to me!
s: The most recent books have their own answers, but those don't mesh well even with each other.
