The Kid finds a frozen Bible in the pack of a frozen couple and chooses to take it despite being illiterate, suggesting he has escaped the Judge's crushing moral gravity and is no longer a candidate for becoming a small version of the Judge.

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Michael Sugrue

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in the kids travels he eventually eventually encounters uh a frozen couple and these frozen couple and this their horses have a frozen bible inside their pack and he takes this now this is a very interesting symbol because the kid's illiterate so what would he do with the bible

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Blood Meridian: Bibliotheca WebinarMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:25:46 PM

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