(urth) choices
Gerry Quinn
gerry at bindweed.com
Fri Aug 5 09:01:42 PDT 2011
From: "António 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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