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Keep marching, anon. This here. For you. The first page of the very first draft of Blood meridian. A very explicit unreliable and meta narrator initially. It's still there but Mccarthy has hid him better in the final book. It's one of Mccarthy's remarkable creations, not just here but in other books too, an Omniscient yet unreliable narrator. The unreliability is not of fact or in the witholding of information, but of interpretation. The narrator knows everything, except the meaning of all of this. That's what i believe the occasional personal closeness to the narrative is meant to convey. The narrator is not the author of the fiction. Here's The Judge talking about something similar (you would come to it eventually):
>The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all.
>Everbody dont have to have a reason to be someplace.
>That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference. He regarded the judge warily.
>Let me put it this way, said the judge. If it is so that they themselves have no reason and yet are indeed here must they not be here by reason of some other? And if this is so can you guess who that other might be?
>This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists
Keep marching, anon. This here. For you. The first page of the very first draft of Blood meridian. A very explicit unreliable and meta narrator initially. It's still there but Mccarthy has hid him better in the final book. It's one of Mccarthy's remarkable creations, not just here but in other books too, an Omniscient yet unreliable narrator. The unreliability is not of fact or in the witholding of information, but of interpretation. The narrator knows everything, except the meaning of all of this. That's what i believe the occasional personal closeness to the narrative is meant to convey. The narrator is not the author of the fiction. Here's The Judge talking about something similar (you would come to it eventually):
>The judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here for a good time or if indeed they knew why they were here at all.
>Everbody dont have to have a reason to be someplace.
>That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference. He regarded the judge warily.
>Let me put it this way, said the judge. If it is so that they themselves have no reason and yet are indeed here must they not be here by reason of some other? And if this is so can you guess who that other might be?
>This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists
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