Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!azure!chrisa From: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Black Company Trilogy Message-ID: <328@azure.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 04:28:34 EDT Article-I.D.: azure.328 Posted: Mon Jul 8 04:28:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:34:59 EDT References: <2372@topaz.ARPA> <15531@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 28 Summary: In article <15531@watmath.UUCP> jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner) writes: > On the other hand, the love of suffering displayed >by Donaldson's Ravers, and the constant self-disgust of Covenant and >Linden Avery are simply loathesome, without the excuse of self-preservation. Here I go again.... Covenants behaviour *WAS* self-preservation. Come on, the guy was a leper. He had to face the fact that for the rest of his life he would never, *NEVER* be able to feel things. I don't know if you realize it, but the sense of touch is about THE most prevalent one in our life. All the others (except maybe hearing) are selective and are used only when needed. Touch on the other hand is a sense that is constantly working 24 hours a day. You never really notice it until you lose it. But once you do, you realize just how much it was used by you. Covenant cannot touch. He cannot feel. He is impotent. And to survive, he has to isolate himself from everyone and to do that, he presents a loathsome front to everyone he meets (even those he tries to help). When he enters the land, his senses are fully returned to him, and he goes nuts. The only way he can save his sanity is to refuse to believe that he has actually been cured. Don't tell me that Covenant doesn't act by an instinct for self-preservation. That's complete bull. Chris Andersen