Posted by Gabriele Guenther on June 29, 1999 at 14:09:50:
In Reply to: Re: Vance and Politics posted by Gabriele Guenther on June 29, 1999 at 13:36:18:
Whoops! In my last posting, I meant Rich Thomas' comments
re Cugel (also perceptive, not Tim Stretton; typing too fast...
In addition to that, Namour comes over to me as quite believable
in a sociopathic way --- he just doesn't care about killing at
all, so long as he isn't caught, while Cugel is more the
prototypical fictional anti-hero. Still, granted, they're both
to be avoided....
BTW. I wouldn't read too much into vance's names; Vance uses
several German words as bases in his books, and it could
then be said that Cugel is also some kind of joke, meaning
sphere in German,m or bullet... but I doubt Vance means much
with many names, even Unspiek, not as deleberate jokes anyway...