Rafe Hatfield on Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:48:53 +1100 posted an email he got >from A... Sent: Monday, 6 December 2004 2:36 AM A... wrote >No, he brings Vlad's grandfather in as a supporter of these >crack-pot rebels! Hi, Rafe, please tell your friend that at least one person does not think Vlad's grandfather is a supporter of the rebels in Teckla. Johne Cook wrote on Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:27:13 -0600 > or "meeting" the ghost on the way to the thing (I'm >being deliberately vague here). I have always thought things worked out the way they did with the ghost because deep down Vlad is worried that he will end up just like the ghost. J C wrote on Mon, 06 Dec 2004 19:12:13 +0000 >Steve tries to, he has said, write the creature >for which he titles the book. Yendi was intriguing, Dragon was war-like, >and Teckla not only highlighted the trials of the supressed and exploited >working class, but also *was* a trial--it shows us that sometimes, life can >be like an onion. It can have different layers to it, and different >textures, and that sometimes, like as we can see in the life of an easterner >in Dragaera, or one of the teckla, that life/layer/texture really sucks, and >there's nothing you can do about it. "Frightened teckla hides in grass". Also Teckla dealt a lot with fear and being paralyzed by it. Instead of being a predator or a scavenger and preying on others, Vlad was helpless like prey--like a teckla. On Noish-pa and the rebels in Teckla: The Book of Jhereg, Teckla page 358 Chapter 4 'He sighed. "Vlad, Vlad, Vlad. It is silliness. If a revolution comes along, of course you support it. But to go out of your way like this is to put your head on the block."' The Book of Jhereg, Teckla page 434 Chapter 13 on the riots in two twenty-one: ' "Would you like to tell me about it?" He sighed and looked away for a moment. I guess he was thinking about my grandmother. I wished I'd met her. "Perhaps another time, Vladimir." "Sure. All right. I noticed that Kelly looked at you as if he recognized you. Was it from then?" "Yes. I knew him. He was young then. When we spoke of him before I didn't know it was the same Kelly." "Is he a good man, Noish-pa?" He glanced at me quickly. "Why this question?" "Because of Cawti, I suppose." "Hmmph. Well, yes, he is good, perhaps, if what he does you call good." I tried to decipher that, then came at it from another angle. "You didn't seem to think much of Cawti being involved with these people. Why is that, if you were involved in it yourself?" He spread his hands. "Vladimir, if there is an uprising against the landlords, then of course you want to help. What else can you do? But this is different. She is looking to make trouble where there is none. And it was never something that came between Ibronka--your grandmother-- and me." "It didn't?" "Of course not. That happened, and we were all a part of it. We had to be part of it or we would be with the counts and the landlords and the bankers. It was one or the other then, it was not a thing for which I abandoned my family." ' Hmmm, landlords and bankers...Good thing Vlad was around in Orca. Bye. Linda G.