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{{Infobox book
| title = Blood Meridian
| original title = Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
| image = tumblr_kxeatsrklJ1qar88i_4404.jpg
| author = Cormac McCarthy
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| genre = [[Historical fiction]], [[The Western]]
| publication date = April 1985
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{{quote|''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.''
''I dont see what that has to do with catchin birds.''
''The freedom of birds is an insult to me. Id have them all in zoos.''}}
▲[[File:tumblr_kxeatsrklJ1qar88i_4404.jpg|frame|[[Covers Always Lie|It's not about plants.]]]]
▲Also known as ''Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West''. It is a 1985 novel, the masterpiece of [[Cormac McCarthy]]. An extremely dark and esoteric novel, it's a total deconstruction of the [[Wild West]] and [[Injun Country]], and its main theme, such as it is, could be reasonably argued to be the darkness and ugliness at the heart of the [[American Dream]]. It was controversial when it came out because of its relentless scenes of amoral violence. It was named by literary critic Harold Bloom as the greatest American novel by a living author.
The novel follows a teenage runaway, only known as the kid, who by coincidence stumbles into the company of the Glanton Gang. This troupe of historical scalp-hunters and later outlaws are employed by the Mexican government at Chihuahua to exterminate the native tribes waging war against the settlements of the surrounding countryside. Needless to say, it's not positive reading.
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* [[Evil Albino]]: Judge Holden.
** Although, of course, not really albino, he fits the trope given that he's paler than anyone living in the Mexican desert has any right to be, and when he loses his hat he's variously described as burning and peeling skin.
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* [[Foe Yay]]: Between the Kid and Judge Holden. It's established fairly early in the book that Holden is a paedophilic rapist, which explains his interest in the Kid and {{spoiler|what happens in the ending}}.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
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* [[Ubermensch]]
* [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]: If you get the many references, it's [[Rule of Symbolism]] instead of [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]].
▲* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: One reviewer of the book mentioned how, on almost every page, McCarthy has made a reference to something, including Antinomial Christianity, Gnosticism, and [[Spaghetti Western]]s.
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