<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Silk is the most unjerky, I agree---although he THINKS he's been a jerk. Which may be more to the point.<br><br>And yeah, Latro comes off pretty well for practically being a barbarian. But he is a goddess-offender.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Marc Aramini <marcaramini@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, April 22, 2013 11:23 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Thea's Identity<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I would have to say Silk is more like a pedant or preachy fellow than a jerk, and Latro more like a heroic dupe. Obviously this is pretty subjective stuff we are talking about. <br>Auk, sev, number five, Dunn, fr Chris - the shoe fits. Maybe Mr Green gets a pass for being a schmoe. Latro strikes me as Wolfe's most straight up heroic character. <br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br>On Apr 22, 2013, at 6:03 AM, David Stockhoff <<a ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> <br>> On 4/22/2013 8:28 AM, Lee Berman wrote:<br>>>> Horn is a jerk<br>>>> Antonio Pedro Marques: I'm not so sure. Morality is by definition local.<br>>>> Horn has no qualms about
telling us his unsavoury thoughts and deeds.<br>>>> Neither has the latter narrator. We may not like all they do and wish,<br>>>> but Horn seems a bit above the average (New) Vironese. And notice he and<br>>>> Nettle stayed together for many years, and raised 3 children, only having<br>>>> issues with one of them, the other two loving. It's no feat for a jerk.<br>>> This is my view of it also. Has there ever been a devoted, loving husband<br>>> and father who did not occasionally feel boredom or even resentment toward<br>>> his family? Who never got too involved in his own activities for a while? Who<br>>> was never tempted by some young chippie? I think Wolfe pours his own heart into<br>>> certain of his characters, perhaps most especially Weer and Horn. Perhaps the main<br>>> point isn't that Horn is a jerk but that all men have a jerkish side to them.<br>>> Naturally, this
side will revel itself amidst the honesty demanded by a three<br>>> novel-length story told in first person. <br>> <br>> I defy anyone to identify a Wolfe character who is NOT a jerk. Everything else---the sympathy, the portrayal, the level of honesty---but they're practically all jerks.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Urth Mailing List<br>> To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>> Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net/" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net/" target="_blank">http://www.urth.net</a><br><br><br></div>
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