title: Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition (Southwestern Writers Collection)
author:  John Sepich 
description: John Sepich is an artist living a few miles west of road signs in rural central Illinois, doing different things to make ends meet.
zlib_text: BLOOD
  
  MERIDIAN
  
  OR
  
  THE EVENING
  
  REDNESS
  
  IN THE WEST
  
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  CORMAC McCARTHY
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Cormac McCarthy is the author of The Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God,
  Suttree, Blood Meridian, and All the Pretty Horses, which won the National
  Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
  
  The author wishes to thank the Lyndhurst Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim
  Memorial Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He
  also wishes to express his appreciation to Albert Erskine, his editor of
  twenty years.
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > > Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and
  > cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible.
  > Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.
  
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  > > PAUL VALERY
  
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  > > It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and
  > lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a 