Completed Blood Meridian. I must say, I enjoyed the book, despite the fact it had no structure or rhyme or rhythm. There are rarely justifications for characters actions, or some type of closure.
It does help knowing that Glanton’s Gang was real, and one of its alleged members wrote a memoir describing its misdeeds.
Not only Glanton, but Judge Holden character come from this memoir, and apparently there’s an episode where Holden managed to talk himself out of raping a Mexican girl by speaking Spanish to the villagers. And on another occasion he decides to lecture scalphunters on geology.
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