V.V. (13) Lhamon

[jbor]

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>From: Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
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> And I was under the impression Lhamon was focused on
> Enzian's Schwarzkommando there, but ... but
> "ambiguity" perhaps there.

The Empty Ones *are* members of the Schwarzkommando, aren't they? My point
with Lhamon on this was that, far from "forswear[ing] tribal suicide",
Ombindi & co. are actively pursuing it still, and they even mount a failed
coup, of sorts, on that there leadership of the Schwarzkommando. There's no
"ambiguity" in the novel about this, and there's nothing in Lhamon's review
to indicate his error is anything other than an error.

> And speaking of problematics, past experience leads me
> to suspect a wisecrack of some sort in there

This is a little bit rich from someone who begins a post with "Okay, you've
done your homework, very good", after insinuating that I haven't read
Lhamon's book and that therefore I have no right to respond to what you
excerpt from it. My comment about your apparent "facility" with the search
functions of the library catalogue could have been taken as a compliment.
Your hyper-sensitivity now makes me wonder how frank you're actually being.

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