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

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 04 Jan 2005, 12:08 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue Jan  4 12:08:46 2005
Subject: (FWD) Re: (urth) The Wizard - questions -- answers (spoiler)
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Stilskin,

I disagree. Garvaon _had_ to hide what he had done, or it
would have had far worse consequences than the ones he 
was hoping to avoid - if the Angrborn had known that one 
of the "hotlanders" (and one of the "honorable" knights no 
less) had murdered their king, they would have slaughtered 
all the knights and the men-at-arms, and enslaved the rest, 
including Idnn, so she would have wound up in the same 
position (so to speak) except with someone other than 
Gilling, and probabily-possibly not even the new king but 
just some random Angrborn freeholder who bought her at 
auction.

--Blattid

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:03:29 -0800 (PST), stilskin <acronus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think you're ascribing far too much nobility to
> Garvaon and this action. Otherwise he would not
> attempt to hide what he had done.  But I think Wolfe
> leaves room for careful readers to disagree on this
> and many other points.
> 
> --- harlekin at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > That's the point.  Garvaon gets no benefit from his
> > action.  It's a sacrifice of honor on his part.
> > Thus it is selfish and selfless at the same time.
> > Garvaon's death is a gift to him so he won't have to
> > live with his shame, not an act of redemption.  His
> > place is skai was assured, IMO.
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
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