Posted by Nick Edwards on June 27, 1999 at 05:06:20:
In Reply to: Re: Unspiek, Baron Boddissey - any thoughts? posted by teaser on June 26, 1999 at 19:41:01:
in the Killing Machine Mr Vance chooses to quote Boddissey on the meaningless pretensions of intellectual elites and their fashions, largely for their ephemerality.(the longest quote in any book before or since i believe).
He then quotes the response of the intellectual elite to Boddissey, which is of course ascerbic, and purely rhetorical. Not one of the quoted critics produces any reasoned critique.
an example: (one quote u left out)
sneers jealously at the careers of better men...
I think you're interpretation is misguided. It would be very easy to produce multuple instances when Boddissey is quoted and or revered by protagonists who are explicitly good, moral, intelligent whatever u wish to call it - against this one which i think anyway is at least ambiguous.
If anyone is interested I suggest they pick up their copy of the Cadwal Chronicles, (who needs an excuse?) and flick through it, it has many references to Boddissey.