I’m starting a mission here to get as many people as possible to read this book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Meridian-Evening-Redness-Picador/dp/0330312561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231968873&sr=8-1
You know how ILP has its fair share of nihilists, amoralists, immoralists, fans of violence, generally fun type people? Well this should appeal to these people. I hope the description sells it to you, I can promise you trees with dead babies hung from branches, the brutal murder and scalping of woman and children, a few rapes, more murders than you could possibly count, imbeciles stuck in cages flinging shit around and none of it morally condemned by anybody of any account and all of it eloquently defended by the terrifying Judge Holden who basically goes around orchestrating violence and killing anyone who dares cross him.
Hell, it’s like the stuff Joker used to post but with better words.
Faust
(Faust)
January 14, 2009, 10:21pm
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Are you equating amoral people with nihilists and fans of violence?
That’s a bit of a generalisation.
Luckily, I’m thick-skinned.
matty
(matty)
January 14, 2009, 10:25pm
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I read The Road and liked it very much. I think I’ve probably mentioned that before. I’ll get round to this eventually, no doubt.
Faust:
Are you equating amoral people with nihilists and fans of violence?
That’s a bit of a generalisation.
Luckily, I’m thick-skinned.
Nah I’m just lumping together enough categories so that most of the people who post on here can be included.
When Glanton and his chiefs swung back through the village people were running out under the horses’ hooves and the horses were plunging and some of the men were moving on foot among the huts with torches and dragging the victims out, slathered and dripping with blood, hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy. There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton’s warhorse.
So what is the way of raising a child?
At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions. They should be made to run naked in the desert until…
Hold now, said Tobin. The question was put in all earnestness.
And the answer, said the judge. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?
Get the idea?
MagsJ
(..a chic geek, de Grande-dame!)
January 15, 2009, 4:35am
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Oh, the good ole days!
Thank goodness for civility and human rights, aye? well, in the parts of the globe where some crazed dictator ain’t running the country…