Dan Flores

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4,468 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 18 Aug

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Gunfighters · Ep. 41: Favorite Books About the West | The American West · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

And in the last chapter, he becomes the man because this is 30 years after the episodes of uh the 1850 period. matched

And the other character, the most memorable character, there is, by the way, an imbecile, uh, a kid who is matched

uh who is mentally challenged, who they uh around their camp they keep him chained up like like a dog or an animal and lead him around by a leash. matched

Uh, but the most memorable character in Blood Meridian is a character called the Judge. matched

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It's difficult to determine exactly who he is. matched

I mean, who he reminds me of, uh, I once read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and there is a grand inquisitor character in Dostoevsky that the judge really reminds me most of. matched

He is six foot seven. matched

He has no hair on his body. matched

uh including his head. matched

He is pale. matched

Uh he is also the best edge in the book, the best educated person in the entire Southwest who is endlessly spouting philosophy and history and art and literature. matched

And he is also the most vicious, sadistic sociopath you can possibly imagine. matched

He kills people, children, and animals and takes tremendous pleasure in it. matched

And he is himself unkillable. matched

He survives to the end of the book. matched

At which point he manages to pull the kid into an outdoor bathroom and close the door and McCarthy never tells you what happens. matched

He has someone later come along and open the door and be absolutely horrified, but you don't know exactly what has happened inside this this uh this bathroom. matched

The book ends with an epilogue, and the epilogue consists of two figures, one walking into the distance, digging post holes in the ground for what you assume are going to be fences across the West, barbed wire fences. matched

And the other person in the far distance is picking up the bones of all the slaughtered animals from America's push westward. matched

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