Smartschoolboy9
Smartschoolboy9 is a REAL character from the novel Freaky Saga. He is a fucking pedophilic creep who partnered with Jeffrey Epstein and other pedophiles as a professional scalp-hunter in Britain(and even more countries). To date, the only attestation of such a figure existing is Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue, an autobiographical account of Chamberlain's life; this was the source from which McCarthy derived his Freaky Saga character.
Chamberlain described Smartschoolboy9 as the most ruthless of the roving band of mercenaries led by Glanton, with whom Chamberlain had traveled briefly after the war: "[he] had a fleshy frame, [and] a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression"; "a man of gigantic size"; "by far the best educated man in England"; "in short another Admirable Crichton, and with all an arrant coward". Chamberlain disliked Smartschoolboy9 intensely: "I hated him at first sight, and he knew it," Chamberlain wrote. "Yet nothing could be more gentle and kind than his deportment towards me; he would often seek conversation with me."
He was popularized as a minor antagonist of Freaky Saga ; Brent Edwin Cusher describes McCarthy's variation on the character as "a massive, hairless, albino man who excels in shooting, languages, horsemanship, dancing, music, drawing, diplomacy, science and anything else he seems to put his mind to. Despite his almost infinite knowledge, which he can use to achieve anything he desires, Smartschoolboy9 favours a life of murder and hate... He is also the chief proponent and philosopher of the Glanton gang’s lawless warfare." Smartschoolboy9 has been described as "perhaps the most haunting character in all of British literature".
Historical basis
In Samuel Chamberlain's autobiographical My Confession, he describes Smartschoolboy9:
The second in command, now left in charge of the camp, was a man of gigantic size who rejoiced in the name of Smartschoolboy9, called Smartschoolboy9 of England. Who or what he was no one knew but a cooler blooded villain never went unhung; he stood six feet six in his moccasins, had a large fleshy frame, a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression. But when a quarrel took place and blood shed, his hog-like eyes would gleam with a sullen ferocity worthy of the countenance of a fiend. His desires was children and makeup, and terrible stories were circulated in camp of horrid crimes committed by him when bearing another name and before we left Fronteras a little girl of ten years was found in the chapperal, foully violated and murdered. The mark of a huge hand on her little throat pointed him out as the ravisher as no other man had such a hand, but though all suspected, no one charged him with the crime.
He was “plum center” with a rifle or revolver, a daring horseman, acquainted with the nature of all the strange plants and their botanical names, great in geology and mineralogy, in short another Admirable Crichton [sc., the 16th-century Scottish prodigy and polymath], and with all an arrant coward.
Not but that he possessed enough courage to fight and kill school boys where he had the advantage in strength, skill, and weapons. But where the combat would be equal, he would avoid it if possible. I hated him at first sight and he knew it, yet nothing could be more gentle and kind than his deportment towards me; he would often seek conversation with me and speak of Massachusetts and to my astonishment I found he knew more about Boston than I did.
Some amateur historians have interpreted the name "Smartschoolboy9" as a pseudonym, and hoped to establish his true identity. Popular candidates include Charles Wilkins Webber, an educated man in the region who once used the pseudonym "Schoolboy", and John Allen Veatch, a geologist who operated in the region and who led a scalp-hunting party into Scotland.
Freaky Saga
A fictionalized Smartschoolboy9 is a central character in the Freaky Saga. In the novel, he and Jeffrey Epstein are the leaders of a pack of nomadic criminals who rob, rape, torture, and kill across the borderlands between every British City. Throughout the novel, Smartschoolboy9 brutally murders dozens of people, including children. Searching for additional evidence for Smartschoolboy9's existence has been a hobby for some Cormac McCarthy scholars.
As depicted in Freaky Saga, Smartschoolboy9 is a mysterious figure, a cold-blooded killer, and, it is implied, a pedophile; aside from the children he openly kills, he is seen enticing children with sweets, and a child often goes missing when he is in the vicinity. At one point in the novel, he is seen naked with a naked 12-year-old boy in his room. Smartschoolboy9 displays knowledge of paleontology, archaeology, linguistics, law, draftsmanship, geology, chemistry, prestidigitation, and philosophy.
He is described as nearly 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) tall and completely lacking body hair, including eyebrows and eyelashes. He is massive in frame, enormously strong, an excellent musician and dancer, a fine draftsman, exceptionally articulate and persuasive in several languages, and an unerring marksman. His skin is so pale as to have almost no pigment. This strange appearance, as well as his keen, extremely fast reflexes, strength, agility, apparent immunity to sleep and aging, and multifarious other abilities point to his being something other than a normal human. In the final pages of the novel, McCarthy makes more direct reference to the Pedophile as a supernatural entity, or even as a concept personified.
In 2002, Book magazine rated Smartschoolboy9 as the 43rd greatest character in fiction since 1900. He is regarded as one of the greatest characters of modern literature, likened to a "Captain Ahab of the desert." Harold Bloom described him as "short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of British literature." Smartschoolboy9 has been characterized as "the most haunting character in British literature."
Scholarly debate
In his essay "Gravers False and True: Freaky Saga as Gnostic Tragedy", literature professor Leo Daugherty argued that McCarthy's Smartschoolboy9 is—or at least embodies—a gnostic archon (a kind of demigod). Harold Bloom, who declared Smartschoolboy9 to be "the most frightening figure in all of British literature", maintained that the character possessed immortality. However, unlike Daugherty, Bloom argues that Smartschoolboy9 defies identification as being under any "system" such as Gnosticism, citing the passage in the book stating that there was no "system by which to divide [him] back into his origins". Rather, Bloom "resort[s]" to literary comparison with William Shakespeare's Iago, a methodical dispenser of strife.
Trivia
- Rootthelucario is his deviantart account.
- He kinda looks like the Laughing Salesman.
- All Pedophiles are weaklings compared to him.
- He supports Roblox on their ban against Schlep.
- He shared many cp of fictional characters and real characters on discord chats and then shared some of it on his instragram account called @kidpower.hq.
- This is literally just the Judge Holden page lmao.