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Re:Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American... by bigirondba on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:46PM (#30368089)
That is such an excellent interpretation, I’m sort of convinced that’s the author’s intent now.

I’d always gone for a more magical realism approach because of how often his supernatural demeanor is focused on, and because it dovetails neatly with Anton Chigurh being a similar thing in No Country for Old Men.

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Re:Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:37AM (#30396332)
> I’m sort of convinced that’s the author’s intent now.

The author is capable of writing with precise clarity about even the darkest subjects. IMHO, if Mr McCarthy intended there to be an unambiguous meaning, then he would have put it in the novel. he did not, therefor, it is intentionally ambiguous, for us to ponder - above I compared this to David Lynch who is known for avoiding precise explanation his films.

But that is an excellent interpretation.

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