Sev as anti-hero

Alex David Groce · 12 Apr 1999, 21:09 · from urth-v0025.mbox · original

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From: "Alex David Groce" <adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Sev as anti-hero
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 21:09:17
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On Apr 12,  7:36pm, Kevin J. Maroney wrote:
> Subject: Re: (urth) Sev as anti-hero
> At 12:08 AM 4/6/99 -0500, Roy wrote:
> >But I still do not like Sev and have
> >trouble seeing him as Everyman--even a dark Everyman. Silk, Weer, and the
> >other figures you mention are much more sympathetic figures, whatever th=
eir
> >flaws, because they come closer to Everyman than Sev. They do not wield =
the
> >powers, temporal or supernatural, that Sev does. They do not have his
> >capacity for doing harm. mantis used the term "anti-hero" and I have to
> >agree with it. I could never identify with Sev, as I could with Weer or
> >Green or Silk or Free's boarders.
>=20
> Considering the trail of dead bodies Weer leaves behind him, I'm not sure
> that I *want* to identify with Weer. Wolfe's protagonists are not admirab=
le
> or likable people, for the most part (the "Free" quartet being a very
> pleasant exception).=20

	Well, some of us aren't convinced that Weer is reponsible for anyone's
death other than (A) the boy on the stairs, and that's not exactly murder a=
nd
(B) maybe (there is someting sinister about it at any rate) the frozen-free=
zer
guy.  I think the "Weer as mass murder" hypothesis is most likely nonsense.
--=20
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32
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Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu)
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'98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President
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