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Meriadoc  ·  3805 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Book Club: Blood Meridian: Discussion 1

As the first thing to mention at least, I absolutely love the pacing and its part in the creation of the atmosphere. It has a weird warping on time despite being fairly constant. Like the crawl through the desert early on, it feels quick even though it's desolate and the characters seem to have no emotions during it, and yet while the sam rhythm is applied during the first exectution Glanton performed, time sems absolutely stopped and you could feel the silence from the town and the company as everything played out. Haunting.