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Bookends: Blood Meridian w/ Aaron Gwyn (Patreon)

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2023-12-03 23:28:56
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2024-05
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Author Aaron Gwyn joins the Bookends Book Club to discuss McCarthy's masterpiece Blood Meridian, gnosticism, the tarot, and more.

Helpful links and references:

Ulysses, Moby Dick, KJV Bible, Illiad and Odyssey,

Nag Hammadi, Gospel of Thomas, The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

https://www.marquette.edu/maqom/Gospel%20of%20Thomas%20Lambdin.pdf

The Cathars of Languedoc as Heretics: From the Perspectives of Five Contemporary Scholars. (Townsend, Anne Bradford)

Aaron Gwyn
https://www.youtube.com/@americangwyn
https://bloodmeridian.substack.com

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Ri Hand

Just had a chance to listen to this! Wish I could've called in, but I was driving through the heart of Cormac country with a bad signal and couldn't be there live!! Great show! I guess I'll just have to keep an eye out for the sleep away camp so I can needle Aaron with questions of my own 🤣

steve

The author sounds rather intriguing. He seems determined to be poor for much of his career/life, (other than accepting a few genius grants along the way, I suppose). Maybe his chat with Oprah was an attempt to amend that, or at least aid in broadening his literary appeal to the masses ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've been listening to some Aeon Byte podcasts with Miguel Connor, which focuses on Gnosticism chiefly as conversational theme. Perhaps the Art of Dark guys (or this guest) would want to talk more about BM there some time (?), since it seems there is a demand and audience out there with people wanting to dive deep(er) into this work. I admit, I'm only aware of some Native American infants being slaughtered by the Judge, and some horrific-yet-unspecified horror happens or occurs to 'the kid' in the outhouse at end of the novel. I might have to psych myself up to willingly immerse myself into Demiurgic waters such as those that this novel is asking its audience to engage with. I'm also not super litereate, so I'm not sure if I would 'get' how or why this book is as good as it's supposed to be even if I did read it (let's be honest - I'm going to listen to the book via torrented audiobook if I get to it at all); but I guess McCarthy never graduated with a degree from university either, so perhaps I'm in good company here. McCarthy did the screenplay for the Michael Fassbender-starring 2013 film The Counselor, which I thought was an underrated/underappreciated film, fwiw.