Blicero

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 4 15:47:08 CST 2001


Comparing Marvy to Blicero/Weissmann isn't going to get very
far. Is it? 
Marvy is rather simple, comic relief, stereotype, Western
movies, White Stetson hat, cartoon. If Marvy's castration is
justice, that seems to be agreed upon, than there must be
some moral or ethical basis for justice. Right? But
Blicero/Weissmann is very complex, just the opposite of
Marvy. So how this system of justice, this moral or ethical
basis for justice applies to him is lost in the comparison
to a simple character. Blicero/Weissmann, has two names and
they should be coupled, but they are also separate, Blicero
is a mythological figure, a demonic presence,  and so I
think it might be more fruitful to explore his own system of
justice and the ethical or moral basis for his actions.
Blicero is demonic. He is evil incarnate. To compare him
with a Western film/cartoon character doesn't make much
sense to me. It's like comparing Milton's Satan with Cain.



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