Blood Meridian: Part I - The Definitive Audiobook
d0m3n1c for 'The Hermit'
(Rugged, playful tone of voice)
While riding out of Nacogdoches, 'The Kid' comes upon a hovel belonging to 'The Hermit', a man both filthy and half mad.
'The Hermit' accommodates 'The Kid' and his mule, going so far as to provide 'The Kid' with shelter during a stormy night. 'The Hermit' was once a slaver in Mississippi who keeps as a memento of those days a dried and blackened human heart.
He prophecies to 'The Kid' that human beings will create an evil that can sustain itself for a thousand years.
*One appearance*
- male adult
- texan
- male senior
1. I aint drinkin after no mule ... 2. Just stay with me. Best stay. It's fixin to storm. I reckon and I reckon right ... Bring ye bed. Bring ye possibles.
3. Dont leave it out yonder somethin'll eat it ... This is a hungry country. 4. I come from Mississippi. I was a slaver, dont care to tell it. Made good money. I never did get caught. Just got sick of it. Wait till I show ye somethin.
5. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world, but he didnt make it to suit everbody, did he? But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better? 6. No. It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there ... It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow ... A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
