I have seldom disagreed with anybody I admire as much as I do with LeGuin about that essay. Poor Katherine Kurtz's prose fails not because it isn't Eddison's -- as if anybody else's ever could be -- but because it's not entirely competent as what it is.
I've been very slowly revisiting The Worm Ourorbouros because David, after checking that I still liked Eddison, got me the Easton Press edition. My Ballantine paperbacks are falling apart, and the Easton edition encloses the nature of the book much better.
I had failed to notice that Juss said that! Perhaps he isn't a hero after all. Perhaps there are actually no heroes. Or the real ones are more like Lord Gro.
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Date: 2022-03-14 07:37 pm (UTC)I've been very slowly revisiting The Worm Ourorbouros because David, after checking that I still liked Eddison, got me the Easton Press edition. My Ballantine paperbacks are falling apart, and the Easton edition encloses the nature of the book much better.
I had failed to notice that Juss said that! Perhaps he isn't a hero after all. Perhaps there are actually no heroes. Or the real ones are more like Lord Gro.
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