Blood Meridian: Part I - The Definitive Audiobook
d0m3n1c for The Reverend Green
(Sophisticated, authoritative, passionate tone of voice)
The Reverend Green, a representative of the Christian religion which is depicted as decaying in the novel, has set up a revival tent in Nacogdoches, Texas, sometime around the time of 'The Kid's arrival there.
While an audience - including 'The Kid' - listens to the Reverend’s sermon against sinfulness, The Judge enters the tent and falsely accuses Green of child molestation of a girl as young as eleven years old, and beastiality.
Outraged, members of Green’s congregation break out into violence and form a posse to hunt the reverend down. The Judge later reveals that he had never seen or heard of Green before in his life - that it was all false allegations made up on the spot. Members of the congregation responds with laughter and buys The Judge a drink.
*One appearance*
- texan
- male adult
- male senior
1. (Sermon to his congregation) Neighbors, he couldnt stay out of these here hell-hell-hellholes right here in Nacogdoches. I said to him, said: You goin to take the son of God in there with ye? And he said: Oh no. No I aint. And I said: Dont you know that he said I will foller ye always even unto the end of the road? Well, he said, I aint askin nobody to go nowheres. And I said: Neighbor, you dont need to ask. He's a goin to be there with ye ever step of the way whether ye ask it or ye dont. I said: Neighbor, you caint get shed of him. Now, are you going to drag him ... him ... into that hellhole yonder?
2.(After being accused of child molestation by The Judge) Oh God ... Lies, lies! (Pointing at The Judge) This is him! This is him! The devil! Here he stands!
3. (Running away from members of the religious congregation that once was his own devoted followers) No! You're all being lied to! Lied to, I tellya, by the devil himself! There he stands! Satan! There - he - stands!
