I like the cut of this guy's jib.
He's not afraid of telling it like it is.
He's strong, unlike our current sissified politicians.
He plays a mean fiddle too.
>>509008006It's different when the president does it
So was he the devil or not?
>>509008325He was an average German.
>>509007528 (OP)Judge was all made up in the kid's head. He is actually the judge.
>>509008988would make sense. The novel can be read as a dark coming-of-age story. The Kid could disassociate himself from the horrors he sees (and is part of) through his journey with Glanton's gang. At the end is accepts his true nature.
However... I don't know. The character of the Judge seems to be something else. Something that is not human.
>>509008325He wasn't the devil nor was he The Kid's self projection, he was a demon from the old world. His abilities, persona, and way he affects others and the way that McCarthy writes him POINTS to him being some sort of supernatural ancient entity or demon, not so much a concept personified.
Remember that street interview video the guy that was all "I work in a slaughterhouse. I work the airgun. My favorite part of my job is watching the light leave the living creature."? He's the best unintentional Judge Holden I've ever seen lmao.
>>509010269I like the connection you do with the Old World. Makes sense and I think it goes into the right direction.
>>509010269Blood Meridian isn't about old spirits it's about the new world of the frontier. Holden is the personification of the American spirit. The white man who wants to put everything into categories and inflict order, and by doing so has to commit horrible acts.
>>509010731Makes sense too as a violent western story. But there is something else lurking between the lines.
>>509010269I got the impression he was immortal for sure given how much he knows and how he speaks every language.
>>509010731Zamn this guy makes a good point too
>>509010731Ironic that a kike diaper shitter would have something to say about this topic, as the judge you'll be meeting one day will be far more cruel to you. Also ironic since you and the judge both love fucking kids.
No, he is not the personification of the american spirit. If thats your opinion, you have a shit opinion moshe.
I can't believe they trans'd the judge
>>509011707That painting is fucking sick
>>509011754Americans inherited giant women from the French
Fun fact, the character Judge Holden is based on a person from the memoirs of a real member of the Glanton gang in the Texas borderlands, Samuel Chamberlain.
Here's the excerpt where he is described:
>The second in command, now left in charge of the camp, was a man of gigantic size who rejoiced in the name of Holden, called “Judge” Holden of Texas. Who or what he was no one knew but a cooler blooded villain never went unhung; he stood six feet six in his moccasins, had a large fleshy frame, a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression. But when a quarrel took place and blood shed, his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend. His desires was blood and women, and terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes committed by him when bearing another name, in the Cherokee nation and Texas; and before we left Fronteras a little girl of ten years was found in the chapperal, foully violated and murdered. The mark of a huge hand on her little throat pointed him out as the ravisher as no other man had such a hand, but though all suspected, no one charged him with the crime.
>Holden was by far the best educated man in northern Mexico; he conversed with all in their own language, spoke in several Indian lingos, at a fandango would take the Harp or the Guitar from the hands of the musicians and charm all with his wonderful performance and out-waltz any poblana of the ball. He was “plum center” with a rifle or revolver, a daring horseman, acquainted with the nature of all the strange plants and their botanical names, great in geology and mineralogy, in short another Admirable Crichton, and with all an arrant coward.
>>509008988Typical leaf take. One of (if not "the") the best parts of the novel is the priest telling the kid how they first met the judge and how he saved their lives. Not to mention the several feats of superhuman strength he does in the novel
>>509008988Nope. McCarthy is direct and avoids cliche. The Judge is just superhuman and presented with both the best and worst qualities of man.
>>509008325He was absolutely satan in human skin. Just having himself a good time. Imagine the song "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones - he's like that.
>>509008006fpbp. Our government has been made up of Judge Holdens from the very start
