Lecture on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Part 2

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • Lecture from my Contemporary Fiction course on Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Here, I over Chapters V-IX. Part 2/6

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  • @-loveless-
    @-loveless- Год назад +36

    Another amazing lecture.
    I really appreciate the movement of professors allowing public access to higher learning.

    • @AmericanGwyn
      @AmericanGwyn  Год назад +6

      Thank you so much! Glad you’ve connected with it!

  • @vling9200
    @vling9200 Год назад +6

    These lectures are a great listen!

  • @someokiedude9549
    @someokiedude9549 8 месяцев назад +3

    You are a talented teacher my man. I'm loving this.

  • @delnieve1
    @delnieve1 Год назад +2

    These lectures are amazingly helpful, thank you. Also the casual trashing of Bloom is a treat.

  • @chappypeck21
    @chappypeck21 Год назад +3

    It’s said like montee. Look up 3 card Monte. A kid who went to my elementary school would hustle classmates using 3 card monte… I imagine that each time it’s brought up in BM it implies that they would set up a grift to scrounge up more debauchery $ in each town... keep up the good work man this is awesome stuff!!!!!

    • @AmericanGwyn
      @AmericanGwyn  Год назад +1

      Thank you!

    • @AlbinoAxolotl1993
      @AlbinoAxolotl1993 2 месяца назад

      Now I picture the Judge on a small table in a saloon rigging the three facedown playing cards with a slight of hand as he shuffles them over and under each other.

  • @reedemorgan6796
    @reedemorgan6796 Год назад +4

    I absolutely love this series thanks so much for sharing!
    What are the chances of a full reading uploaded as one video? Your interpretation of the page elevates the content tenfold for me!!
    Ty from Essex in the uk.

    • @reedemorgan6796
      @reedemorgan6796 Год назад

      I mean “full reading” ie audiobook style.

    • @AmericanGwyn
      @AmericanGwyn  Год назад +5

      Thanks so much, man! If you know of anyone who might enjoy this, please share!
      I'll think about a one-video full reading: kinda amazing idea!

  • @LAHFaust
    @LAHFaust 9 месяцев назад +1

    I took the Judge's meaning of "God's word is in stones, trees, and the bones of things" is that words can be false but actions are true. There is no falsehood in action, a man can say he didn't mean to shoot a man but he still shot him. God can say sacrifice your son but he made the world, there's no taking that back.

  • @Shinryakugun
    @Shinryakugun Год назад +3

    My moustachios are teamster'd and I'm ready to be sad about man.

  • @melanisticmandalorian
    @melanisticmandalorian 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks to this reading, I have a nightmare of going to the toilet ever again. I guess I will be pooing out on the balcony from now on. Maybe I should have saved this comment for the last video.

  • @ju1cycrackfa1ry
    @ju1cycrackfa1ry Год назад +13

    I can never find channels like this as they are taking off and I'm so happy I came across this one. Looking forward to every single upload.

  • @RocketKiss
    @RocketKiss Год назад +16

    Please blast Howard Bloom in every video. For the fans.

  • @codygeorge2202
    @codygeorge2202 6 месяцев назад +4

    Love McCarthy, and glad I found you via Ben Avery. Gonna check out your book!

  • @davidcavazos2270
    @davidcavazos2270 7 месяцев назад +3

    I love this. My PhD is in Business, however this reminds me of the gothic literature seminars I took as an undergrad that i loved. McCarthy is my favorite writer, so I relish any opportunity to gain additional insight to his work.

  • @JuvyThaKid
    @JuvyThaKid 3 месяца назад

    Really fascinating lectures, I'm glad I stumbled on these!
    One thing that struck me was, and I might've heard it wrong, but did you say you won't have tarot in your house because of Satan? I was just confused because I had never heard that connection before.

  • @RichMitch
    @RichMitch 3 месяца назад

    The sheer amount of ads on these lectures makes them very difficult to follow

  • @92sammyp
    @92sammyp 10 месяцев назад +1

    When the judge tells the traveler story by the fire to the Glanton gang is that related to the young boy "the man" kills before walking into the final bar for his reunion with the judge? I remember one of the boy's friends says after he's been shot something to the effect of, "it's not his fault he's crazy mister, his father was hit over the head by a maniac and buried in the woods." I couldn't help but make that connection considering it ends the penultimate scene, providing some sense of closure before the final confrontation with the judge. Does anybody know if the two were meant to be connected, or just a coincidence?

    • @stangoings4160
      @stangoings4160 7 месяцев назад

      Yes, he is a descendant of the traveler that the harness maker killed. Both the harness maker’s and the traveler’s descendants became killers of men, but for different reasons.

  • @fakethinksy101
    @fakethinksy101 Год назад +3

    Another amazing lecture. Thank you again.

  • @darkhobo
    @darkhobo Год назад +2

    If it's not too much information, where are you giving these lectures?
    Also I must say, your voice when you read is perfect. Its exactly how it sounds in my head.

  • @Lemsford
    @Lemsford Год назад +2

    I'm loving this lecture I listened to both parts today at work. Just sitting here waiting on part 3 :) Thanks for posting this! Can't wait for more.

  • @Lemsford
    @Lemsford Год назад +2

    Also, you're reading voice for this is pretty next level

  • @gwilymeades
    @gwilymeades 6 месяцев назад

    It's the goshdarn govmint

  • @TheMrTJWhite
    @TheMrTJWhite 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is great, a well of knowledge. Thanks for your insights.

  • @DeeperStoriesbyTT
    @DeeperStoriesbyTT 11 месяцев назад

    He speaks in rock, trees, and the bones of things... this is in the context of the age of the world. The items he lists mark the passage of time.

  • @benkrog8820
    @benkrog8820 7 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks!

    • @AmericanGwyn
      @AmericanGwyn  7 месяцев назад

      ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

  • @adamnoble1689
    @adamnoble1689 11 месяцев назад

    That discussion about Judge's rejection of books, for the study of material reality, is chilling to me. It's a challenging view I don't want to accept.

  • @melanisticmandalorian
    @melanisticmandalorian 11 месяцев назад +1

    It's insane of how much foretelling there is in this story, but wrapped in riddle or in mysteries which can be easily researched but, most of us, just never picked up on it. It's not like it was foretold once, but many events are foretold once and again, in many ways and in many parables.

  • @melanisticmandalorian
    @melanisticmandalorian 11 месяцев назад

    the kid (answering your question) keeps talking about "freedom", yet what america was for most of it's life was anarchy. Hell, Jan 6 was just around the corner, which was anarchy.