“That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can read it in his face, in his stance. Yet his complaint that a man’s life is no bargain masks the actual case with him. Which is that men will not do as he wishes them to. Have never done, never will do. That’s the way of things with him, and his life is so balked about by difficulty and become so altered of its intended architecture that he is little more than a walking hovel hardly fit to house the human spirit at all.”
- Judge Holden, Blood Meridian
There are things the judge does in this book that are overtly violent and depraved. I am now haunted by those things lying below the surface of his words and actions that are only becoming more visible with reflection. He is the most frightening character I have ever come across.
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