Kevin's Watch

i'm with earthbrah on this: in that situation swearing a little too much is very comforting and makes you feel less contsrained

shadowbinding shoe wrote:Something else about Covenant's swearing. He, like his father uses the word Hellfire a lot. But in this book, during the trip to the past you really feel it. Every time Linden gets cold he baths her in hellfire. Come to think of it maybe he has a lot in common with Satan. Within the familial context of the Covenant (+Linden) family, Thomas Covenant is god, Linden the holy spirit, Roger Satan, maybe Anele as Jesus figure

What do you think?

I'd like to think that this is not the case, but who knows. I don't think so, IMHO. I try and stay away from religious allegories in fiction because I'd rather they be separate. Just a spot of preference there on my part.

Not to mention that they imply things the author never intended, and which might actively conflict or distort the actual meaning.

You can't ask if TC has sworn in the 3rd Chrons yet, because after 2 books, he's only REALLY said one sentence. And it was at the very end of the book..

I thought the F-bomb was a little uncharacteristic for TC. When I started this book and saw how he (and "Jeremiah") were treating Linden, I almost stopped reading after a certain point because this was NOT how things were supposed to be!

I noticed also that just about everything he said to Linden started with some expletive, and I was going, "Something ain't right here." Glad I was finally vindicated but disappointed we didn't get more of the real deal before the book ends.

Anyway, in my rambling way I'm saying that the swearing was what sent up red flags for me... I just couldn't figure it out.

I knew there was something wrong as well, but for the longest time I entertained in my mind both possibilites that it could either be the true Covenant or a Covenant impersonater. I reserved my judgment in that case.

Yet the level and degree of swearing was, in my mind, discomforting at least to me. I always have thought that *harsh* swearing was insulting even if it wasn't directed at me. But that's just me, a regular softy.

Yeah! I mean, I'm a big Stephen King fan and it almost felt like I'd stopped reading Donaldson and meandered into one of King's stories instead!

I've only read one of Stephen King's books ('Salem's Lot) and I had to sort of mentally wash myself afterward.

They aren't all like that. As I recall, "The Eyes of the Dragon" has very little cussing. He wrote it for his kids (when they were teenagers, I think). "The Stand" has some language in it, but I believe it is by far the best single I've ever read.

(Looking for something to read tonight... think I'll re-read "White Gold Wielder".) It's been a few years...

Well, I'm just glad that Stephen King didn't write the TC Chonicles.