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? ? BLOOD MERIDIAN OR THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST ? ? CORMAC McCARTHY ? ? ? ? ? ? Cormac McCarthy is the author ofThe Orchard Keeper, Outer Dark, Child of God, Suttree, Blood Meridian, andAll 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. ? paul?valery ? ? 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 thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness. ? JACOB???BOEHME ? ? Clark, who led last years expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 3OO,ooo-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped. ? THE?YUMA?DAILY?SUN June 13,1982 ? ? ? ?  ? ? I ? Childhood in Tennessee - Runs away - New Orleans - Fights - Is shot - To Galveston - Nacogdoches - The Reverend Green - Judge Holden - An affray - Toadvine - Burning of the hotel - Escape. ? ? See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few last wolves. His folk are known for hewers of wood and drawers of water but in truth his father has been a schoolmaster. He lies in drink, he quotes from poets whose names are now lost. The boy crouches by the fire and watches him. Night of your birth. Thirty-three. The Leoni