Blood Meridian Chapter 14 | Chapter by Chapter Read Along
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Chapter 14 pushes Glanton's gang even further into violence that seems increasingly disconnected from profit, survival, or any practical purpose.
After wondering last chapter whether these men kill for profit or pleasure, I'm beginning to lean toward an answer. The scalp trade may finance their reign of terror, but much of what they're doing now seems to exist simply because they want to inflict violence.
In this episode, I look at that escalation, one particularly disturbing act involving two puppies, the return of buzzards and blood soaked landscape imagery, and Judge Holden's increasingly revealing worldview.
The Judge continues documenting the natural world in his mysterious ledger, but now he gives us something approaching an explanation: whatever exists without his knowledge exists without his consent.
That raises a much bigger question about everything we've been tracking:
Does Judge Holden simply want to understand the world—or does he want to possess it?
Next up: Chapter 15.
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