Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Which means that it's probably the best novel.
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Many people think of it as the best novel anyone has written about the American West.
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Um
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I'm trying to remember if it was the New York Times, I believe it was, in a canvassing of literary figures, critics, professors of literature in 2006 asking them for the best novels written about America over the the past fifty years.
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Uh
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Blood Meridian came in number two in that list.
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Having said all that, and also having uh about to say, the language is incredible.
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It's lyrical, it's descriptive.
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The guy writes probably some of the best sentences anyone has penned uh in the English language for a very long time.
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This is
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An eminently disturbing book.
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It is a book that is based on the real life events of a gang called the Glanton Gang.
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Right after the Mexican War, this group of Southerners and Texans primarily, with a sprinkling of people from other parts of the country, formed in the new Southwest that had just been added to the United States as a result of the Mexican war.
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and began to contract with the Mexican government that was at the time at war with various bands of the Apaches down on the southwestern border, particularly in the area around Big Bend, today's Big Bend National Park.
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They contracted with the Mexican government.
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to sell them the scalps of Apaches that they killed on behalf of this war that Mexico was having uh with this particular these particular bands of a of a very large tribe.
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Вот танк гейнг асоді.
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Because they realize this is a part of the world where the Mexican settlers themselves are part native, in some cases significantly native, that you could also kill Mexicans in small little towns that nobody knew much about and scalp them and turn their scalps in, and the Mexican government wouldn't be able to tell the difference between
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Apache scalps and those of the Mexican townspeople.
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These guys carried this on.
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