TPR v. The Nation; or, The Evening Redness in Lower Manhattan

Team |1|2|3|4|5|6|7 Total

TPR |0|0|3|0|0|1|0 4
NAT |5|0|0|0|4|0|X 9

Within the first minute the slaughter had become general. —Blood Meridian

Themes found in Cormac McCarthy’s grotesque 1985 masterpiece, Blood Meridian, hereby presented in descending order relative to how closely they can be applied to a postgame dissection of last week’s softball game against The Nation:

1. Destruction, Chaos
Blood Meridian is essentially a chronicle of destruction, a hurricane of terrible things like knives and guns and dead babies. This game, while not a massacre of flesh, was nonetheless a massacre (maybe of the human spirit?). From the onset, our side played a sloppy game; a slew of early errors gave The Nation a first-inning lead they would not relinquish. Like in the novel, the slaughter was complete; unlike in the novel, it was mostly self-inflicted.

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