One of the epigraphs at the beginning of Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' is: > “Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopi

One of the epigraphs at the beginning of Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian' is: > “Clark, who led last year’s expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier showed evidence of having been scalped.” McCarthy's point is that violence is ancient, a deep part of us. But that doesn't make it good. It's a safe bet that one of the very first interactions between two organisms on earth resulted in one's annihilation; that doesn't mean we should go around killing things.