[LMB] SP: Inappropriate reactions

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

Peter H. Granzeau pgranzeau at cox.net
Mon Nov 6 22:48:38 GMT 2006

   

At 12:24 PM 11/6/2006, Victoria L'Ecuyer wrote:
 >I took the OT: off this because it is still on topic, just spoilered.
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 >From: "WILLIAM A WENRICH"
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I agree on Sunny Sawman.  I can't think of a less appealing
character.  He has no compensating virtues whatsoever:  he seduced
Fawn, and even in the seduction, it was slam, bam, and he didn't even
say "thank you" that I could notice.  If ever I saw a character who
needed to be blinded and gelded, it was he.


*** A point of... something: do note, as Fawn did, that Sunny's crime 
for which he was eventually meted out authorial cosmic justice was 
neither rape nor seduction, but slander (or threatened slander.)   
Properly, he should have been stung by many wasps on the tongue, but Dag 
was doubtless a trifle confused about the issues, too.

    If Fawn hadn't, in a rush of hormones, curiosity, and courage, 
jumped Sunny's bones at the party, it is unknown if Sunny would ever 
have gone beyond canoedling (spelling?) with Fawn.  (All those big 
brothers, after all.)  (Although I can't see him turning down a free 
lunch, and indeed, we see he didn't.)  Where Sunny fell down was in 
handling the consequences.  In which his true character was revealed, 
fortunately for the formerly-dazzled Fawn.

    Real tragedy would have been if he *had* married her.  And 
extinguished her spark. 

"It could be worse,"  L.


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-- 
Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net



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