SLSL, 'UtR' Who won?

[Paul Mackin]

Porpentine falls in both versions. Whether anyone checks to see whether
or not he's dead isn't said. Porpentine sees Victoria as the courtesan
men ruin their lives for. Ultimately she represent Empire. His Manon.

If I'm wrong here please let me know. No one can ever be sure about
these things.


P.

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 10:07, Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:
> Will some of you scholars out there please help me out
> and let me know who actually won the face-off between
> Porpentine and Moldweorp? And why does Victoria
> choose Goodfellow instead of the "new music" man,
> HBS? Is her choice to witness the humanity of
> Porpentine- and seal his fate- what saves Goodfellow,
> providing him another opportunity to fail later on?
> 
> Does Victoria represent freedom? She seems in
> league with HBS, somehow, as the paranoid Porp
> suggests- they are all involved. HBS also hints at
> being a free agent; he doesn't have to throw the switch; 
> it's a conscious decision, isn't it, to turn off thinking?
> 
> Are Victoria and HBS working toward the same
> ends (vertex) with the distance between them
> getting smaller and smaller; working to exclude
> the muddled middle-ground of the old dispensation?
> 
> respectfully
>