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Literature · 1985

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

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Blood Meridian
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Restates power in a sharper literature register.

Scalp hunters in the borderlands. Violence as the organizing principle of human history.

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Scalp hunters in the borderlands. Violence as the organizing principle of human history.

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Scalp hunters in the borderlands. Violence as the organizing principle of human history.

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