(FWD) Re: (urth) The Wizard - questions -- answers (spoiler)

stilskin · 04 Jan 2005, 11:49 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: acronus at yahoo.com (stilskin)
Date: Tue Jan  4 11:49:08 2005
Subject: (FWD) Re: (urth) The Wizard -  questions -- answers (spoiler)
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Message-ID: <20050104194907.81348.qmail at web20027.mail.yahoo.com>

I'm not sure that Garvaon's sacrifice would have been
appreciated by Idnn had she known of it.  In fact, I'm
pretty confident she would find it reprehensible and
offensive.  Garvaon's motivation is selfish.  He
redeems himself in battling Setr.  Had he died in
almost any other way, I doubt he would have been
raised to Skai.  One interesting theme that runs
throughout the Wizard Knight is that of redemption, of
second (and sometimes even third and fourth) chances.

Paul


--- harlekin at earthlink.net wrote:

> This is a paradox.  Garvaon sacrifices his knightly
> honor to benefit Idnn, something not even Able is
> willing to do.
> Don
> 
>  His murder of
> Gilling, in knightly terms, is a deeply selfish and
> dishonorable act -- thus it's interesting that he is
> "raised" to Skai.  But then again, Abel himself goes
> against the knightly code many times, and is
> rewarded
> for it.
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- Russell Wodell <wrustle at telus.net> wrote:
> 
> > What would be Sir Garvaon's motive for killing
> > Gilling? (Rhyme 
> > unintentional) And why would Wolfe conceal this
> for
> > so long?
> > 
> > For this and other reasons, I am fairly certain
> that
> > Iddn is the murderer. 
> > She agreed to marry Gilling to achieve power,
> which
> > she maintains with her 
> > army of giantesses, but killed him because sexual
> > congress would mean her 
> > death either in coitus or in giving birth to a
> > giant, as Wolfe makes 
> > gruesomely explicit.
> > 
> > If I'm right, this further underlines the
> increasing
> > strain of misogyny in 
> > late Wolfe...
> > 
> > Russell 
> > 
> > 
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