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I didn't claim Blood Meridian was based on a poem. But I do consider it an odyssey, set in the South (Eastern Texas), and during the Jim Crow era. And last I ch
by kolanos 9y ago
I didn't claim Blood Meridian was based on a poem. But I do consider it an odyssey, set in the South (Eastern Texas), and during the Jim Crow era. And last I checked, the Jim Crow era encompassed the 1930s, especially in the South.
By odyssey I mean:
1. a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune
2. an intellectual or spiritual wandering or quest
I think Blood Meridian fits that description.
- tptacek 9y agoBlood Meridian is set before Jim Crow, and all across the American Southwest. It's also just tonally about as far as you could possibly get from O Brother. If it was a comedy, it would be American Psycho. If Fargo was just people being fed into the wood chipper, it would be the comedic counterpoint to Blood Meridian.