Soldier of Sidon

Transentient · 13 Jul 2007, 03:58 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: transentient at gmail.com (Transentient)
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:58:18 -0400
Subject: (urth) Soldier of Sidon
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On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Nigel Price wrote:

>
>
> On this last point, Wolfe has devised a wonderful strategem to  
> surmount the
> problem of how you have a basically good and morally upright hero  
> who still
> has lots of love affairs. He forgets, so of course he is not  
> culpable even
> though he serially unfaithful to his wife back in Italy!
>

I find it interesting how Latro seemed quite a bit less piteous in  
Sidon due to the fact that he was monogamous (well, polygamous, but  
in the actually matrimonial sense and not just sleeping around like a  
rake). At least during the part of the book that followed the river,  
when things were going comparatively smoothly for him.

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