Blood Meridian shares thematic concerns with Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange: both are concerned with the problem of evil and the impossibility of medicalizing or treating evil as a religious question that can be solved through institutional means.
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“the decision to make a moral choice and to move in a different direction reminds me of another 20th century novel which actually it has many of the same concerns and that would be uh anthony burgess a clockwork orange all right uh both of them are concerned with the question of evil”
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:25:46 PM
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