[UA] The Outsider: miscellaneous observations

[Nick Wedig]

>In "One Shots" we meet the Comte's daughter Joy, along with his other
>daughters/wives -- the Sorrows.  But there's nothing to say he doesn't step
>out on them from time to time.  Shit, if Sorrow was your wife, wouldn't YOU?

Joy's his daughter, and the Sorrow's are his wives?  I must have missed that.  Shit, that whole scenario starts to make some sense, now.  Before I was just wondering "What's up with that?" and "Where's the dad, or is it some virgin birth thing?"

>In fact, just this moment I've got the inspiration that as a younger man
>(say, sometime around the Bronze Age) he might have raised a gaggle of
>mortal kids and taught them some of his secrets in order to use them as his
>agents -- loyal kids to help him keep the world in line.  But he doesn't do
>that any more.  Watching his children age away into death was just too
>hard, even for his immortal heart.  Or perhaps one of them betrayed him and
>had to be killed...

Somehow, I tend toward the latter rather than the former.  A sentimental Comte doesn't work as well as a cynical old bastard Comte, for me.  But that's jsut my preference at the moment.

Mr. teapot
didn't read J&S very closely

____________________________________________________
FREE Disinformation E-book - http://www.disinfo.com

_______________________________________________
UA mailing list
UA at lists.uchicago.edu
http://lists.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/ua