GRGR(7) human dogs all over again
Lars Frehse
improfane at flashmail.com
Mon Jul 26 11:11:42 CDT 1999
I´ve been looking forward to this one, so listen:
"You slept through the loud squadrons roaring without letup, but
Gwenhidwy´s small, reluctant tap woke you. Something like what happens
on the cortex of Dog during the "paradoxical" phase." (138.10)
So, after all, Pointsman is merely human, too. And it looks as if he´s
been conditioned by something bigger than him: "The War". In a way, this
raises the question if any character in GR acts on a free will base. For
if even this schemer and puppet-master is merely responding to certain
stimuli, whou could possibly be a master of his own fate?
So long,
Lars
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