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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I see no evidence that Arnthor
and Morcaine utrilise their dragon aspects elsewhere.
Morcaine is introduced as dinner for a dragon.Later Able
speculates.on the issue of whether Arnthor's dragonly
equipment may be an impediment to his </font><font
face="Arial" size="2">relationship with Gaynor, but this seems
a little doubtful to me, even if it fits her character
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Able's speculation qualifies as evidence, I think. And since
Garsecg/Setr is Aelf in Aelfrice and a dragon in Muspel, it seems to
me that you are rejecting the obvious. When Able sets things right
in Mythgarthr, it means the end of Arnthor's and Morcaine's rule.<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">[It is unfortunate he could not
have found a woman like Idnn, who would, at least after a pep
talk with Able, take such issues in her stride. So to speak.]</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"
size="3">>Well, it's true I'm speaking in terms of the
intended message as I see it. Michael says that in order
true have Disiri, Able must learn to summon her...that is he
must be her her master...that is, he must master his lower
desires. In order to do that, he defeats his dragon Grengarm
and goes --the opposite direction from Aelfrice-- to Skai.
After that, he has become a knight Mythgarthr sense and can
perform all the duties of a knight that he has pledged. And
*then* he can summon Disiri.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I can buy this interpretation.
Though I am not 100% convinced by it.</font></div>
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That's good enough for me.<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Of course Disiri is also Woman...
and as usual Wolfe is less than wholehearted in proclaiming
Her superiority.</font></div>
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Hmmm...I don't want to respond contemptuously, so just imagine that
I did. ;-)<br>
What is the message of then of Valfather bowing before Michael? One
thing I appreciate about Wolfe's fiction is that he is apparently
deaf to unspoken PC post-feminist rules that cause other writers to
turn their female characters into predictable stock.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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