surprisingly very well and soberly said LOL <having bolded my fav part of the above eloquently astute declaration.dANdeLION wrote:Actually, I'm quite tired of the "I hate Teresa, don't you?" question. It keeps getting asked over and over again, just like the inane sex questions about Teresa & Geraden. I do not consider these questions to be germane to this discussion (and definitely not this chapter), and I'm really, really close to deleting the lot of them. SRD has written quite a good 'fairy tale' here, and there's so much more going on; I'd really like to focus on some of the things that actually are relevant to this chapter.
I do believe that Eremis believed himself to be the height of intellectual prowess .. LOL .. regardless of his big nose he seemed to weild significant charisma with the girlies .. Saddath did consider herself supremely crafty to have made her way into his bed ..
Eremis had charisma notwithstanding a very big nose or even inspite of his big nose .. or maybe because of his big nose
well take a look at Austin Powers - international man of mystery .. yeah mojo baby .. but Eremis was different right?
A master of manipulation .. a artisan of his gender perhaps but he knew how to push buttons and get what he wanted. He always came across as a man who was accustomed to having what he wanted ..
Terisa wasnt stupid .. she was inexperienced .. She was a girl who had not only had a kinda forced alienation imposed on her .. but a self-imposed alienation from the world too ..
Here was a mature male who approached her in a way she had never been approached before .. a man that seemed even to "see" her ..
Dont despise Terisa for surrendering to Eremis' smarmy approaches .. Teresa was still struggling with this reality .. and her own ..
and Mordants Need is a very interesting fairy tale indeed