Third time in less than a year and I feel like I am starting
to get it. The extent of the driftlessness and suffering cannot be overlooked.
The judge, whether right or wrong, targets the Kid because he alone kept
himself removed from the cleanliness of pure violence the others partook in. If
war is god, then to withhold pieces of oneself is a type of defiance akin to
Lucifer. Non serviam. Yet the judge, in his worldliness is a type of
violence personified. And, therefore, he fits; is equipped for each situation. God
as recognizable to the uninitiated, is dead. The judge, even in his seeming
immortality which makes any claim dubious, may be the manifestation of an
entirely material cosmology. One either blissfully or dangerously without
arbiter. There is a trace of right and wrong in the Kid (though what are his
actions on the raids?). It seems the judge cannot abide this. Finally, even the
Kid is swallowed by the embrace of war as god.
