GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[jporter]

Hello Terry. You said:

>What are you both saying here? In the novel these constitute
>mere play of the imagination. I might agree with this
>statement, but I don't know what you are talking about. It's
>not evil because it's in a novel? OK, I agree with that, if
>that's it?

Speaking only for myself here, that's partly it. The novel is very good.
The characters are complex and for me, it does the work a disservice to
reduce any of them to "good" or "evil." These conceptual terms may have
some abstract meaning, but the characters have enough complexity and
multi-dimensionality to be more than that. Pulling a particular example out
of the work and testing it for "goodness" or "evility" also, to me, seems a
disservice to the work as a whole.

Hope that helps,

jody