Judge Holden

>This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.

So... the Judge read Stirner

thanks for posting those two posts!

You should really read the book (assuming you're the guy who said he hasn't). Here's something the Judge says:
>The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
The Gypsy is basically predicting this cyclical principle will manifest for Glanton and his gang. Their peak will entail their fall. Glanton wants to believe he is a self-contained will, not subject to such laws. So he reacts violently when the Gypsy suggests this.

You think McCarthy has read the critiques of him?

probably not but if he did he wouldn't let on anyway

Psh.. Nothin personnel... The Kid

Literally everyone thinks that and it's not because they're experts on gnosticism. It's not a position that anyone you've talked to has come to on his own

kek... is Blood Meridian the one book that EVERYONE on Veeky Forums has read?

Just finished that. Gave a copy to my dad before I'd read it and deeply regretted it so after getting to all the incest and necrophilia

Whatever he is physically, he's the perfect union of man's higher and lower natures. He's what you get when you combine a perfectly untrammeled animal id with a perfectly developed genius-level intellect and remove all psychosomatic conflict between these higher and lower natures