(urth) The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned byRudesind

[brunians at brunians.org]

Yeah, I got Chamberlain's memoirs next to Blood Meridian on the shelf here.

I've also met guys like Judge Holden.

Not physically like him.

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>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:13:25 -0400, brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> I'm not sure what would happen!
>>
>> Say, and apropos of nothing, has it occurred to anyone besides David who
>> has read McCarthy's Blood Meridian that the Judge is could very well be
>> a
>> larval form of Baldanders?
>>
>> Note that this would require McCarthy to have read Gene Wolfe.
>
> Well, yes indeed Judge Holden is reminiscent of Baldanders.
>
> But the creepier thing is that the Judge, well, he's not really a
> fictional
> character.  Or if he is, he's Chamberlain's fictional character.  The
> height, the albinism, the baldness, and the terrifying and lethal
> appetites
> towards children are all there in Chamberlain.
>
> The Wikipedia article is a decent summary:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Holden
>
> Now, I would personally be surprised if Wolfe had not read Chamberlain.
>
> Adam
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