Talk:Judge Holden

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Judge Holden can be portraited as a wise but evil person.

The statement above is nonsensical. There is some argument as to whether the Judge Holden portrayed in 'Blood Meridian' is actually a person at all, rather than a 'brujo' or diablero. And what does 'portraited' mean? Centrepull 09:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Don't be deliberately dense. You know what he meant. 68.166.68.26 (talk) 22:25, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] brujo

what is a brujo? there was a link that open a rides of the purple sage album. i've removed that link. there is no other entry, stub or otherwise, for brujo currently on wikiChildhoodtrauma 13:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Brujo is Spanish, the masculine form of bruja (witch). So, a wizard or magician, but the term connotes black magic. Hashashin 20:28, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Appellation

There should be included in the article an interpretation of who or what Judge Holden himslef presides over, i.e. what is he a Judge of? The Expriest in the novel fails to reveal this to the Kid when this particular question is presented to him by the latter. ArdClose 18:27, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

The kid does encounter an answer to this question while dreaming/hallucinating after the arrow was removed from his leg, near the end of chapter XXI: "The fool was no longer there but another man and this other man he could never see in his entirety but he seemed an artisan and a worker in metal. The judge enshadowed him where he crouched at his trade but he was a coldforger who worked with hammer and die, perhaps under some indictment and an exile from men's fires, hammering out like his own conjectural destiny all through the night of his becoming some coinage for a dawn that would not be. It is this false moneyer with his gravers and burins who seeks favor with the judge and he is at contriving from cold slag brute in the crucible a face that will pass, an image that will render this residual specie current in the markets where men barter. Of this is the judge judge and the night does not end." --Raphite (talk) 07:20, 22 November 2007 (UTC)