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The line that indicates the Judge grabbing the Kid/Man and holding him in his arms while naked, and slams the door shut... Its reminiscent to when Leatherface slams the metal door shut in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre after killing that guy. Not only did Holden sodomized the kid but he also broke his neck with his bare hands. He broke his neck as he was climaxing. That's how I envision it. And when a man opened the door he saw a body with a bloody hole, and a head completely detached from the neck from internal decapitation. Like in a hanging. Sorry, I have morbid thoughts.

The chapter that features Hueco Tanks has especially stuck with me since im from El paso and have been there a few times.

Great stuff

Haven’t started watching this completely yet, so I’m gonna edit my comment as time goes along hopefully. First little tangent, I really love the cover art for this specifically it very much reminds me of dawn of the dead I really love the notion of the kid being born a killer, even though he has a free agent as stated by Tobin and the choices he makes definitely rejects the judges, overall philosophy that he tries to impart on him. I think his birth very much falls in line with a chosen one aspect nearly. I think this, especially coincides with the ending of the book when the judge does what he does with the man at the end because it’s a pyrrhic victory. The kid could’ve been the perfect dancer or warrior or what have you but since he rejected the judge, he decided to get that Pyrrhic victory When it comes to the first impressions of the judge and his overall appearance, of course, he is seen as devolution trickster he like he said, and how others have compared them to paradise, lost in other scenes within the book but I think he is almost a parody of Homo sapiens, and if anything. I don’t think he’s a demon or the devil, but he’s almost like if a demon or a devil created a man this is the kind of man they would create. If man really is of antic clay, then the judge was sculpted out of the hands of a demon at least

Breathe bud. You sound nervous. & remember the Comanche weren’t a Texas problem. Texans arrived 500 years after the mesoamericans. Don’t be racist towards Americans domestic policy towards its indigenous people!

You are a wonderful lecturer. That end of Blood Meridian always gives me goosebumps.

Long live Larry Christie

So good!!

Really want to take your class(es)

I do ponder why Suttree was so bitter to the Ragpicker after his death, as I thought he liked the man. Was it his grief at losing him combined with being offended by the Ragpicker forgetting the gasoline and thereby him in a way? Does it have to do with his father issues, him being a father figure to Suttree and rejecting this new father now? In a way, it kind of reads how Suttree’s father would react to his current path in life. Or am I missing something? I’d love for thoughts on this

Huh I just finnished the book and thought the kid now the man was crazy and turned into the judge and attacked the little girl in the jakes and was the man reliving himself out side latter when the two men came down

I heard Aaron on the art of darkness podcast (thoroughly recommend it) and had not read any McCarthy. His passion and enthusiasm for the works lead me to thus far read 6 of Cormac’s oeuvre. Thank Aaron, I’m forever indebted to you

Wonderful series!

42:00 really didn't expect a mini-etymology on Based in a Structuralism lecture, but AFAIK, it at least comes from Brandon McCartney aka Lil B aka Based God for y'know the counter-cultural tough gang banger persona > which then got co-opted where else by 4chan used tongue-in-cheek about pretty off-color takes (typically Sexist or Racist) as Based before working into the larger forum culture of just "anything cool is Based" before eventually being co-opted by right-wing personalities for again, non-PC takes, but done completely non-ironically and outside the 4chan niche

"Once upon a time, Texas had a serious Comanche problem. Alright? This was before Texas was in the hands of the Anglo, and Texas was a part of Mexico." ive got to thank you for putting the white supremacist, settler-colonial perspective out front so i dont have to waste time with the rest of your lecture. another, more accurate way of beginning, might have been: once upon a time, texas had a settler-colonial problem...

Lots of people going hard on you for being "woke" or whatever, but to be fair, you are taking a book about the universal and omnipresent nature of human evil and turning it in to a one-sided howard zinn beach-read. I do like your videos though thanks for posting.

Shitting on the white man are we lol?

We've all got the capability for violence

Larry Christie sounds like almost as big a legend as this Aaron Gwyn guy I keep hearing about

Having listened to your videos today I have some new thoughts. The USA was founded on the ideas of the enlightenment, the founding fathers were extreme liberals in their day. The Judge with his knowledge of the arts, law, science, languages etc. would have been thought of as an enlightened man, yet he is more savage than any so called ‘savage’. Even ‘liberals’ at that time agreed with manifest destiny and the need to bring civilisation to the ‘barbarians’. The British Empire, Napoleon, Stalin and Hitler would all have made similar claims about what they were doing- they were civilising the world in their own minds. It probably also had something to do with the amorality of science and scientists- they seek knowledge but claim no responsibility for what is done with that knowledge. Didn’t McCarthy have friends at Loz Alamos where the atom bomb was developed? Some random thoughts but then again I’m pissed and stoned. These videos are great!

I’ve read it at least twice and am reading it again on holiday in Crete with my girlfriend (she thinks that’s weird). I’m not sure I’ve ever really understood it at all until I listened to your lectures, but I let the language wash over me and I love it. I’m quite sure it must be one of the greatest books ever written even though I haven’t read them all. How could it be any other way when whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent

Would do anything for more of these on Suttree alone

Love all these McCarthy lectures. Thank you for sharing them. I has been a joy to reread Suttree and Blood Meridian and now ATPH. Will you be doing more of his novels in the future? I am a big fan of The Road, even though a lot of people think it is his weakest book - to me it is his best.

It's difficult to hear your students, so if this was mentioned, I apologize. However, in my experience, gunfights are often over before you realize you're in one; there's not nearly so much to write about as with a knife fight. A common aspect that McCarthy didn't include is the slippery nature of knife fighting. It is quite common for a party to cut themselves with their own knife. This is awful stuff, and there it sits, a fine piece of writing. I regret that I cannot attend your lectures, though I'd also like to know the title of the music that begins and ends your them. Thank you.

Whoa i hear a legit chalkboard!

I'm enjoying these so much that I find them hard to just listen to. I want to join the conversation!

This is great! Thank you. I really hope this leads to a couple lectures on, "The Crossing"

You think there were any historical mentions of bowie knives that where the size of big swords?

I was drunk, cried Suttree.

Both of these masterpieces hit me like a brick wall. There are few books that, as you’re reading them, you never want to end. These are two books that do. I wish I could read them again for the first time. These are books that, when you finish, give you a certain sensation that other books do elicit.

Is this Daniel day Lewis speaking? lol

I want it to be an opera. The way the words rush over you the first time through is kinda like listening to a beautiful performance in a different language

The judge is amoral in totality and he/it has a design

Were you writing The Cannibal Owl during this time? How much did this piece influence The Cannibal Owl?

I can handle your verbal ticks ( right, like, okay) but your lousy virtue signaling and racism is too childish to endure. There are far less annoying sources a click away. Cheers dirty white boy.

I was just about to say the Turner Diaries. Kudos to that guy who knew about that.

You and your students genuinely make me miss academia!!!