On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 01:53:06PM -0400, Casey Rousseau wrote: > MJ replied: > > Actually, I was thinking of CFSB&G, and _Teckla_. . . . > > Ah. I like _Teckla_ too, but I get the feeling that lotsa folks get > squeamish about the politics. Those who don't are likely to be upset > that our hero is losing his gal. Kick, smack, hug away. I like the > central role Noish-pa has in this and Pheonix. Teckla makes Vlad much > more human, less high and mighty. Gee, I wonder why? :) It's funny, I don't agree a bit with Kelly & crews politics, but I absolutely agree that the Teckla are getting the raw end of the stick - and will continue to get the raw end of the stick until they stand up on their hind legs and do something about it. Until I got it thru my thick head that Kelly really was planning a Marxist revolution, I thought that the story was going to go the way of so many other revolutions -- desperate people will follow anyone who promises them relief, but then find that they've exchanged one bad situation for another. And no, I don't care to argue the merits of Marxism, Trotskyism, and whether or not Kelly would have built a good implementation of same or even if such is possible. I'm merely saying that the politics didn't bug me first time through because I thought they were going to be irrelevant in the end. The collapse of Vlad and Cawtis marriage is well-foreshadowed and executed with the inevitability of a landslide; both need to come a long way if they're ever to repair things. I'm betting they don't, tho on a purely personal basis I'd like to see them become civil - if only for Noish-pa and Vlad Norathars sake. A couple of years ago I wrote up my opinion on the whole thing; it's in the archive at <http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/2362>. Reading it over, I still stand by it. -- "Offense thieves -- they take it when it isn't offered." -- another definition by Tom Digby