# Digest urth.v029.n024 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Jul 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David Duffy *03 Jul 2000, 00:47* > Eek, Reynard as the hero? Even more horrifying than anything I saw. > (Not really, I mean I saw that: just that it seems like the grimmest > reading. Judas, yes; a necessary-for-the-book Judas, certainly; but Judas As a good Gnostic and fan of heterodoxies, JC would be happy to have Judas as hero, wouldn't he? I was fuzzily thinking as part of the hero, based on my distant memory of the finale. Rereading it he says he acts from Nature rather than Duty. As LB ends with a Parliament, so too does B I guess. > JC is making a drug joke, as he makes many through the book--it is > without doubt the druggiest book I have ever read, including others, > -alga On rereading TD, Neither-nor hibernates and Adar and Nod burn and inhale a few old dry leaves together ("hungrily" ;)). ---