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2:03 How dare you say infer anything negative on a Vile Eye video

Just discovered your channel. So happy. I named my daughter Flannery after one of my favorite authors. Thank you for your content.

Very sensitive - deep view. Thank you.

One year later: production on the film adaptation is a go. The Judge is set to be played by a POC/LatinX Trans icon.

so THIS is what your pfp is from... haha amazing work man. Your channel is so inspirational and galvanizing to my love of all things creative already and now you have accomplished this great feat too. Awesome stuff and congratulations

Congratulations! A very interesting premise. Why did you decide to set the book far back in the past and not present day? I presume it is because all the flowers would be researched and studied by now?

You and all ur gnostic pals can yell it till ur blue in the face but THAT NIGGA IS THE DEVIL MADE FLESH AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHEWISE

Where can I get that hard copy of the book you have?

bought and read this book off those first few minutes. incredible book, trying to get back into reading after many years of not (i am 16 years old) and this is my second book after blood meridian. thank you, and excellent video.

That’s messed up to to call out other takes on the character you seem very up your own but

For it was The Demiurge, with the head of a lion and a body of a rearing serpent who trapped us all in the prison of the flesh chaining us with shackles of urges and sensualisation. It pleased it so because it was The Warden and without the prisoners there would be no prison. It was empty...it was nothing it had no power and no true purpose. The Freedom of The Monad the true spiritual state the white open spaces would be denied. Our only crime to simply exist as radiations of The Monad. The Demiurge hated it had no true power without it , it hated that freedom and freewill that would have the sheer audacity to exist. It would not permit it. It lived in denial and darkness. Because it feared the freedom and the light of The Monad. Because it reminded it of it's own true petty pathetic impotency. The Demiurge was a pretender who could not stand to hear it's own hollowness. So it writhed and danced to the music of humanity as they struggled in their custody and the sound of it's song and self adulation .

please dust off your shelf 🙏

I'm so glad I found your channel. thank you so much for your efforts this is amazing

I thought I read somewhere that McCarthy said (in one of his vanishingly rare interviews) that Holden was the snake from the garden of Eden? Is that wrong?

just getting into literature and this is very helpful, thank you

OK so I guess I'm re reading this book one more time

But also listen to Ben Nichols last pale light

Thank you so much for making this video. I just finished the book for my first time before finding this video; perfect summary and analysis. Something you said about this being 32 years before Brothers Karamazov that I didn’t quite catch Do you have any videos on that novel? Again thank you 🙏

Very skillfully narrated❤

SPOILERS: although it may feel cliched by some readers who typically try to predict the ending... the story knows how to subvert your expectations from: 1.) Grandmother alludes to how The Young Man *would* treat Nastenka and how she will feel 2.) When Nastenka experiences every word her Grandmother, we the reader assumes that Grandmother was right about the Young Man, this false sense of affirmation about him makes us believe that Nastenka and the Narrator/Dreamer would be endgame 3.) Only when the plans were set and all ethical problems were cleared, did the Young Man arrive and take our hopes for the Narrator, but we feel somewhat happy for Nastenka. We were proven wrong about him. It was hope when you least expect it the most, but for us, it was pain that was noble and kind.

Wonderful video, thank you for this! 🩸 🏜️

This was a great summary and breakdown of the book, thank you for your work.

there is such intention behind your words, the ending was absolutely gorgeous. i do remember

Moral of the story, gnosticism is bullshit

to me holden was the most christian of them all, showing the world what they crave and what they always bring while trying to figure out the lies they've been told their whole life.

Great narration by you, simple and serious

I'd say in the novel the better interpretation is that Holden is the Devil, he hunts the gang because they did not uphold their bargain with him. His deals are too good to be true. FOr example he offers an inordinate amount of money for the Kid's pistol, and claims he simply wishes to buy it fair and square. The kid and Tobin think it's not good and imply that Holden will simply shoot them with the pistol and take his money. I think that the better interpretation is Holden is the Devil and there is no God, at least not one who can be counted on, or contacted. He has abandoned humanity. The only God left to treat with man is the Devil, Holden. He takes on the role of God but in a twisted way, leading him companions through the desert, not to the Promised Land but to Death. I think gnosticism is a wholly esoteric system that is unconcerned with earthly life and offers nothing to the story. It's not simply that God is the Devil. That idea exists elsewhere. I don't think it adds anything to this story, and much of its main ideas are missing in Blood Meridian. For example, true knowledge would save and spare the travellers but this in not true in the story. It is a desperate and dark one, the light in the world does not exist and cannot be found even through true knowledge, this is totally counter to gnosticism.

He is a Dutch guy who is super intelligent sociopathic pdf file and he uses his intelligent to scare and gain control over lesser men what he isnt is supernatural or some kind of being or god or devil. Blood Meridian is a vehicle McCarthy uses to show his belief that mankind worships violence and at are base we are animals and will never truly be civilized. I agree we are beyond fixing

The gnostic aspect to the judge was a deep thread I followed and I can see why many hold it dear. The burning tree is my favorite passage. The tree of knowledge maybe, which is central to Gnosticism. The spark within, the fire, inside the kid and up for grabs by the judge. Are we witnessing a microcosm of Gnosticism through the judge and kid and is the judge an aeon in that sense. Maybe the judge is not gnostic but the rules of reality and those rules, in cormacs eyes, were best seen in Gnostic works. It’s a fascinating discussion.

If I was to summarise this book, this is basically the narrator getting brutally friendzoned 😭😭. I really enjoyed it though, it was a very beautiful book.

I think that the judge is a self insert for Cormac McCarthy and the book is actually about Cormac McCarthys lack of rizz ,the clear love square between the judge the kid glanton and the fool because the fool disappears and glanton dies and the ending scene in the jakes was actually just the judge asking the kid to dance with a nice loving hug

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Italo Calvino mentioned!!! (Great video as always)

best judge analysis, truly

I think Wendigoon reignited interest in this book tbh!

The only criticism I have about Blood Meridian is that the constant metaphors became a bit annoying. At times it seemed like almost every sentence ended with a metaphor, and it became a bit grating once I noticed it. I reckon if you did a word-count for Blood Meridian, the word ‘like’ would be one of the most repeated words in the book. Don’t get me wrong, metaphors can be a great way of conveying a feeling. But I think they should be used in moderation…

I knew a girl named Suzerane once

This is a pretty obvious case of reading into a text what you wish to be there.

Holy balls! The depth of this analysis is unreal. I commend you. But do you ever just think to yourself while you’re reading… “huh, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar?” And just enjoy the visceral reactions one gets from reading a very entertaining book?

The Vile Eye has always been a hack pushing his own beliefs while trying to come across impartial and beyond reproach, Glad more people are seeing it now

The connections to Gnosticism are abused by readers and critics to make the story increasingly esoteric and demented. It trivializes the suffering into a gutless statement about evil being caused by something other rather than worked out in the hands of human agents. We start talking about archons and a malevolent demiurge and now there’s a red bow on top of the piles of bodies which people take pleasure in; “at least that’s not me” says the so called pneumatic. Inevitably this misses the role of the kid who himself is not easily identified on this scale of evil or good. People want to discuss the judge and make the ex priest and the kid accessories to him in the story, like explanatory ornaments. I hardly think that even if McCarthy desired to write solely about the evils of our reality that he would so privilege evil to such a status. Gnostic interpretations nonetheless treat these texts like a shared media enterprise from which we draw from mutually rather than metaphysics. It makes the allusions little better than if McCarthy included a Scooby Doo lunchbox in a scene to symbolize childhood. Instead of obsessing over the details and finding out what words match to what obscure source, it’s more productive to understand the structures of the story and what is being said by how it’s being said.

The quote at 8:24 is actually from Samuel Chamberlain's memoir "My Confessions". The passage describes the real historical Judge Holden that inspired the Blood Meridian Judge Holden. In the book Holden is around 7 feet tall.

10:43. How do you even correctly spell "Annaretta?"

Really great take, not a big fan of most essays on Judge Holden but this one was fantastic

Seeing the judge as the devil is very short-sighted. It's a step on the correct path...but there are miles to go...

I am The Judge and I approve this message.

I’m only a third through the video so I apologize if you mention this later, but I do believe that description of the Judge you cited as from McCarthy actually comes from Samuel Chamberlain’s “My Confession”, an autobiography which undoubtedly had a huge influence on Blood Meridian.

Great video and research

The quality of this video is outstanding, I can't understand why this channel hasn't gone viral yet