The Badass
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 23 16:24:30 CST 2001
>From: Eric Rosenbloom <ericr at sadlier.com>
>
> "Give me liberty, or give me death."
>
> --Patrick Henry, 23 March 1775
>
>This seems relevant to what The Badass is up to.
Yep.
>Blicero is not a rebel against, but the very spirit of white death. There
>is no desire for liberty, no dream of a new dispensation except that of the
>Reich itself, to be the master of all we fear, to be a death machine.
Well he could be seeking to be that kind of monster, but how do you deal
with that "death's cycle" quote? He sees himself a part of a system which
he wants to move beyond into another more glorious. And I don't think he
means from the Natural to a finer gradation of the one he's already in,
Their Death Cycle.
If he seeks "to be a death machine," it would have to be a Supermonster,
like a werewolf, which I believe he's also called in this segment of GR. I
guess what the difference we're talking about here is one of polarity, where
what I'm saying that Blicero would be the Anti-Badass.
David Morris
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