GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)
Terrance F. Flaherty
Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
Tue Dec 14 17:25:01 CST 1999
Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
>
> Terrance schrieb:
>
> > Is Blicero
> > the avatar of the Nazi dream of the death Kingdom in GR? Yes
> > he is. Does that make him an evil character in GR. Yes. Is
> > fucking children evil in real life? Yes. Is pointy an evil
> > character in GR? Yes he is.
>
> But their evil is different. Pointy's COLD evil is more evil than Weissmann's
> HOT one. Blicero's passion makes him more human than Pointsman. Furthermore,
> I dare to doubt that you can really identify Weissmann's dream as "the Nazi
> dream". Are his primary concerns really "ethnic cleanness" & the German world
> domination? I'm not quite convinced of that. Can you give concrete passages?
>
> KFL
Yes and NO. I agree that Blicero concern is not "ethnic
cleanness" & the German world
domination? His concern is the the Zero, the death kingdom,
this is associated with the Nazi's in GR.
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