Ep 118 - Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 17 June 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Cormac McCarthy is a writer in the vein of Hemingway or Faulkner, a person whose prose you can spot from a mile away. That can be a good or a bad thing, as we discuss in our show on his 1985 book Blood Meridian.Join us for a discussion of scalping, war, and the special Internet that only Cormac McCarthy knows about.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.8	I'm going to show on this ice cube while you think about something to talk about.
0:40.7	Oh, that's great radio. You should do that.
0:43.5	I didn't think we were doing the episode yet.
0:48.3	Welcome to Overview. This is a podcast about the books you've been reading to read. My name is
0:51.6	Craig. My name is Andrew and Craig has ice as well.
1:00.4	Oh, ice mouth. They'll call you.
1:06.5	What would your gangster name be like in the 1920s?
1:12.0	Oh, you mean like so not like what would your 90s rapper name be but like what would your
1:18.0	what would your prohibition era bootleger name be?
1:22.1	Yeah, because my 90s rapper name would be MC getting. That's just my name. It's done.
1:27.2	Right. But my 20s name would probably be ice mouth.
1:34.4	People would hear the ice clinking against my teeth and they'd know that I'd come for them.
1:39.0	And then Elliot and asked what would you come and arrest you and that would just be it.
1:43.1	I guess I'd be like maybe because I'm like tall and slender. They would call me some kind of
1:50.3	like fat name. Like they wouldn't just call you tall guy. No, they wouldn't call me like
1:55.5	slim or whatever because you have to call it a fat guy slim.
1:59.7	Fat boy. That's how that's how well no, we're not talking about nice
2:04.4	raffer days. Try and stay on top it.
2:10.1	Okay, you would be like chubs.
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