Of Pirate again

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Jody responds:
"Sounds sound to me. But my point again: the feeling I get that Pirate is
capable of guilt (if not wallowing in it), for *things he has done* (or not
done? They've got 'im comin and goin') in the name of empire, country, king
(we'll leave God out of it for the moment). Guilty, even though he knows he
is no more evil then anyone else caught up in it. It's conditioned. Like
Pudding, it can be used to control him, because on some level he wants to
be controlled. He craves the clarity and reality that, under the
circumstances, only humiliation can bring. He may hate Them, if They really
do exist, but, if They weren't quite as real as They seem, he might just as
well, for his own needs, coax Them into existence out of thin air, much
like his fantasized personal A4."


This too sounds right.

And one should note that many of the eventual Counterforce will have joined
from such feelings of guilt or at least have those feelings to contend with.
Katje will be the most obvious example.

As to Leni, I don't want to anticipate the GRGR just yet--so I'll put her on
hold for a bit.

Don Larsson, Mankato State u (MN)