In a novel by this author, a man carries an object owned by Pacheco before throwing it as part of a bet. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author who wrote about the kid and the violent Judge Holden in Blood Meridian. This author wrote No Country for Old Men and The Road.
ANSWER: Cormac McCarthy
[10h] In Blood Meridian, these objects that are described as appearing on the “Night of [the kid’s] birth. Thirty-three,” paralleling a later event featuring these objects during which an unnamed character is presumably murdered in an outhouse.
ANSWER: meteors [accept meteor showers; accept stars]
[10m] Harold Bloom unfavorably compared this other McCarthy antagonist to Judge Holden. This character from No Country for Old Men carries an air-powered captive bolt stunner and flips a coin to decide his victims’ fates.
ANSWER: Anton Chigurh [or Anton Chigurh]
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