choices

Gerry Quinn · 05 Aug 2011, 16:01 · from 2011-August.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 17:01:42 +0100
Subject: (urth) choices
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From: "Ant?nio Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>

> It was written:
>
>> villains
>
> Time for another query. Who are your favourite arch-villains? I mean, 
> those who really rejoice in their villainy? Almost cartoonishly? (cartoon 
> villains don't count)

Is rejoicing in one's villainy really a necessary characteristic of a good 
villain?  It seems hard to avoid cartoonishness in such - the example that 
springs to mind is the Archimandrite in Iain M. Banks' _The Algebraist_.

My favourite villian is Casmir in Jack Vance's _Lyonesse_, but he doesn't 
really rejoice in his villainy, and would probably find arguments to justify 
all his actions.

- Gerry Quinn

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