On Jun 7, Chris Turkel said:
>One of the first things you learn in lit class in college is that
>sometimes you have to decide if the narrator is trustworthy or not. I
>really like Vlad but I don't entirely trust him sometimes, I know there
>are things he's not saying, glossing over or outright lying about.
>Teckla is one of those books where you have decide how truthful he
>really is being.
There are (at least) two kinds of unreliable narration: the ones where
the narrator isn't seeing important things, and ones where the narrator
is deliberately lying.
Vlad is both dense and dishonest. So's Paarfi, in very different
ways.
>> It might be, of course, that the author does view the
>> Cycle as a simple and unalterable physical reality, as
>> Vlad almost describes it in _Taltos_ (though even Vlad
>> says that a sufficiently strong person could move the
>> Cycle -- and that raises the question: what kind of
>> strength, and how much of it?). I sort of doubt it,
>> though.
>
>God like strength, probably. The Cycle does seem simplistic, at least on
>one level but then again, sometimes that's the way it is is the best
>answer of all.
Consider who he was, though: _even_ _if_ that were the case for
Dragaera, Vlad might be able to do that sort of thing.
Rachael
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