u/AnimatedLuminescence

I wasn't excepting her to shoot at me like a supersonic jet; made me burst out laughing.

One of the few pieces of text within Blood Meridian to completely stump me is this sentence fragment spoken by Judge Holden on page 256. I understand (at least I think I do) the gist of the surrounding text of this paragraph, but I cannot make heads or tails of what he could possibly mean by bleeding life of its strangeness. I would appreciate hearing anyone give their interpretation for this expression.