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Blood Meridian Chapter 23 | The Dance Never Ends

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We've reached the end of Blood Meridian.

Chapter 23 brings the kid, now the man, face-to-face with Judge Holden one final time, and suddenly so many things we've been tracking throughout this read-along begin connecting.

The dancing.

The kid's capacity for mercy.

The Judge's obsession with war.

Predators and prey.

Cycles of violence.

And the question we've been asking almost from the…