>That's true. Maybe in fact he wants he wants to hate Dragaerans but fins >himself liking some of them. Sometimes racial relationships are like >that. I think we have to face it that Vlad is a bigot. My "real world" definition of a bigot is someone who says "I dislike/hate [insert group here], but some of my best friends are [member of group]". Vlad himself admits this to Kiera in _Orca_, when he says something like, "Normally when I work with a people, I grow to like them, but with Orca, I just hate them all". He also says [in some book that is escaping me right now] something to the affect of, "Now I can get back to hatings Dragaerans in general, and liking them as individuals." I think the first shows that, as is often the case, knowledge/education of intelligent individuals is often a wonderful cure. The second shows the internal fortitude to recognize one's weaknesses. All, of course, IMHO. -Jot >On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 12:36 PM, Frank Mayhar wrote: >> Chris Turkel wrote: >>> Yes, I agree. It's one thing to not know but it's a whole 'nother thing >>> to know and still bash your spouse for it. It was my impression that >>> even though Vlad kills Dragaerans, he doesn't have a deep hatred of the >>> race. >> >> Actually, he does, at least at some level. Or at least that's how he >> rationalize(s,d) it. The fact that he excludes certain Dragaerans from >> that hatred, of course, just makes things more interesting... :-) >> >> (Chris didn't write this bit:) >>>> Cawti was also a hired killer - and a damn good one, by everything >>>> we've read/seen. It's not as if she married Vlad not knowing what he >>>> did for a living; heck, at the time they married, they were both in >>>> the >>>> same business. >> >> Do you remember how they met? She killed him. Talk about starting a >> relationship off with a bang. :-) >> -- >> Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ >> Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ >> >> >-------- >Read The World at the Edge of Time, my new book! >http://homepage.mac.com/christurkel