“Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy (post 3): Epilogue, Ending, Namelessness of Kid-Man were dictated by author’s committee of alternate personalities.

As noted in http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/cormac-mccarthy-on-the-power-of-the-subconscious-video, Cormac McCarthy implies—similar to the example he gives of novelist Henry Miller—that his own novels are “dictated” to him by a “committee" that resides in his “subconscious”; i.e., his alternate personalities.

So if you want to know: 1. why the kid/man is nameless, 2. what happens at the end of the novel between Judge Holden and the man (formerly the kid), and 3. what the Epilogue means, well, you just have to accept that this novel was dictated, behind-the-scenes, by a committee whose members don’t have to explain themselves, either to you or Cormac McCarthy.

Who says so? Cormac McCarthy’s host personality, who knows this explanation will be hard for you to accept, which is why he doesn’t like to give interviews.