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Blood Meridian

Blood Meridian

Texas-Mexico border in the mid-19th century: Kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where aboriginal Americans are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Created By

Cormac McCarthy

Status

Returning Series

Original Name

Blood Meridian

First Air Date

January 1, 1985

Last Air Date

January 8, 1985

Seasons

1

Episodes

2

Language

Production Companies

Networks

S01E24

Prologue

In the dawn, a man (referred to in the Characters list as the digger) progresses over the plain. He makes holes in the ground using a two-handled instrument made of steel, thereby “striking the fire out of the rock which God has put there.” Behind him, wanderers move mechanically from hole to hole, “monitored by escapement and pallet”; they seem prudent and reflective, but they are not. Their movements seem like the validation of causality. Some wanderers seek for bones; others do not. The man strikes fire in another hole and withdraws his instrument. “Then they all move on again.”

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