Kevin's Watch

One of the few things I found truly disappointing about the Chrons. was that all SRD's characters are black and white, good or evil, and never cross sides ( I mean come on, even Hulk Hogan joined the NWO for a time )

But seriously though. The Lords are good and while Elena makes a mistake, she never succumbs to evil intentionally; FF succumbs to his lust for violence and blood, but on the good side; Pietten cares for the Ranyhyn, but I was always waiting for that evil to come out and it did. I always felt that Pietten battling his inner demon, helping the good side directly in the story and THEN giving in would have been far more interesting and made PTP even better.

Lena especially always bothered me. She's the same throughout: she loves cov, goes somewhat crazy, is on the good side, and has no ability to affect the plot and outcome of the story. I wish she would have been more than that one-dimensional character in PTP...

I always associate Lena with the writing of TC's first book - the one he wrote just after gaining, (and just before losing) the ability to feel. He felt he mistreated his inspiration with the first book, that it was false. He feels the mindset he was in when writing the book was naive and innocent, like Lena.

Yet, it was his 'feeling' that created the first book. He wrote it in 'the days right after he married Joan" His sudden new ability to touch emotion and write it came from feeling her. Her closeness let him reach his own anima, or inner feminine.

There is the "power" that is symbolized by his wedding ring, which he never could understand or control after.

He felt drained after writing it, naturally, and this made him stall on the next book, which he still thought he had to write, instead of translating the new connection with feeling to his family.

There was the mistake. He rushed to write the second. His wife left him *alone* 'with strict orders' to write, and he immediately contracted leprosy, or "lost the ability to feel."

He never really saw that it wasn't writing the first book that did it, but trying to write the second, without Joan.

Roger should have been their second book. He only assumed it was the first book that was the problem. Look at how we're still reading the consequences of that mistake.

What he did to Lena symbolized what he thought he did to his soul with the first book, In the Land, this translated as a rape, because that's what he felt he did by writing. He 'felt' again, and he immediately dove into those feelings with the same fervor that is described in his writing of the initial novel.

So Lena isn't as much of a character as a spirit, as she appears later. Maybe her purpose wasn't really to have an arc. In his psyche,, or the Land, the 'Lena' is the inner feminine he felt while writing, and that which he feels he raped, because he lost his family after, and made a wrong association.

The book itself was the "Elena" - the product of feeling - that could have been viewed as such, but instead was translated by guilt into a destructive force, only because he mistakenly viewed it - her- as the product of a rape.

(Notice all the lords respected Elena, and how it relates to his first book being a best-seller.)

Maybe he's back alive now to come to terms with that mistake, and that's why the Land's turmoil is so involved with Joan and Roger's despair. Let's hope so.

Great insights, Anima Corrupt!

Yah. Good stuff.

This deserves kudos.

Hey thanks. I may be talking from my rear. Cross-dressers naturally tend to pick up a thing or two about the 'inner-feminine' archetype, and start to see it wherever they look.

(Don't even get me started on how Geraden created Terisa in a mirror, and then they 'completed' each other, lol!)

"Lena" is a shortened form of Helena and/or Magdalena, both classic names applied to the anima archetype. Jung used "Helen" to refer to the second stage of its development, and of course "Magdalena" has been associated with Christ's inner feminine nature, (albeit expressed as a 'character,' much like Lena)

"E-Lena" I assumed meant "Expression of the 'Lena," and the first book fit the bill, especially in how everyone else revered her, but only TC saw her as insane, just as everyone thought his book was great, but only he saw it as horribly flawed, (and thus as a product of his own soul, saw his soul as flawed.)

...or something.