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April 09, 2009

1867: "And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight..."

I'm definitely excited by what I've heard so far about the film adaptation of The Road, but still don't believe Blood Meridian is filmable. Anyone care to debate it with me?

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon the ground before them and they watched the fire which does contain within it something of men themselves inasmuch as they are less without it and divided from their origins and are exiles. For each fire is all fires, the first fire and the last ever to be. By and by the judge rose and moved away on some obscure mission and after a while someone asked the expriest if it were true that at one time there had been two moons in the sky and the expriest eyed the false moon above them and said that it may well have been so. But certainly the wise God in the his dismay at the proliferation of lunacy on this earth must have wetted a thumb and leaned down out of the abyss and inced it hissing into extinction. And could he find some alter means by which the birds could mend their paths in the darkness he might have done with this one too.

And that's not even covering the blind pony, the Apache in a blood-spattered wedding dress, and THE PARASOL MADE OF HUMAN SKIN AND BONE!

Confidential to L'Amoeba Incroyable: Even though Twitter ate your message to me, I ended up receiving it in an email notification anyway. I intend to visit a bookstore just as soon as I can free myself from the shackles which keep me attached to my desk, and follow up on your recommendations. *salute*

Posted by ashley at April 9, 2009 09:48 PM

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