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From: "Alice Turner" <al@interport.net> Subject: (urth) Enemies list Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 22:03:55 >I've always taken the covert support by the Phoenix Throne of >Vodalus/Agia as a "1984-ish" trick--Big Brother (gov't) controls >the Brotherhood (anti-gov't underground). >Vodalus might be another patsy, another candidate for the >throne being cultivated by the autarch, in the same way that >Baldanders is being cultivated for the throne by O, B, & F. (For >example, Thecla was not arrested by the autarch's order, but by some >faction apparently a bit more concerned with stopping Vodalus.) That is a depressing thought. Vodalus is ersatz to the bone, as symbolized by the false coin. His only redeeming feature is a certain courtliness toward Thea--but look how he betrays his "servant" (the Autarch) in the crunch. The "1984" analogy is a good one (that's hard to follow too!), but I must say that together with the E, A & S (and Baldanders too) role under the New Sun, the Vodalus connection seems to me among the less than tightly hammered together links of the series. -alga- *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/