Mr. Harmon
- Originally from: Rogers, War Eagle and Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Currently residing in: Venice, CA
- I've been on arkansasrockers since November 1, 2002
- Last updated on Jul 4, 2008 at 1:03AM my local time (4:03AM server time.)
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Thanks for the bike tips!
Darren and Chad– Everyone out here wants to make “Blood Meridian.” Hell, I do too, for that matter, but my better sensibilities lead me to think that a movie shouldn’t be made. It cannot be done. Those things being said, a friend of mine suggested that the film be laid-out like a map, as his theory is that the book is basically about cartography and the frontier of knowledge.
I don’t know what I think about it anymore. I’ve read enough Cotzee to know that the scenario isn’t too implausible, and we all know about “The Memoirs of a Rogue.” Ghastly human behavior isn’t relegated to some distant past: it is ever-present and pandemic. Whereas I once occupied myself with the truthes of “blood Meridian,” I now concentrate on it’s faults. Man is never become outside of nature. That such cruelties are fact shouldn’t be so alarming, only in the fact that humans, as a species, are capable of recognizing the natural as unnatural.
Like the hermit said, “Ye can find meanness in the least of creatures.” Perhaps it is an odd coincidence that corn plays such a huge role in McCarthy’s literature of the west, because as it stands right now, corn is giving humanity a race to the end.