[LMB] What is wrong with Thomas Covenant books OT:

Mark Allums mallums at tyler.net
Thu Jul 13 03:10:06 BST 2006


Raye Johnsen wrote:
Does [Thomas Covenant regret his action]?  I do not get
that feeling.  I read it and
> reading the rest of the book it appears to me that he
> regrets its consequences, but he never actually
> regrets doing it.  He acknowledges that he's a piece
> of shit for doing it but he already thought so low of
> himself that it makes utterly no change in his
> attitude.  It does *nothing* save characterise him as
> an utterly selfish being.  He does not spare even a
> thought to the consequences to his victim, and except
> when confronted with the wider consequences to himself
> he doesn't even think about it.

Not sure we read the same book.  He was sorry the morning after, and 
decided to help The Land as penence, even though he didn't even really 
know what was going on.

--Mark Allums



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