You're welcome and thank you. None of the novels that moved me most had the kind of plot that depends on the author cooking up ways to make things difficult for the characters, and some of them -- I'm thinking here especially of Hermann Hesse's Demian, and more recently Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge -- don't have problem-oriented plots at all. The kind of story in which a character works out a complex destiny without benefit of contrived crises is one I find very satisfying.
As for "I am not that faun," I have a guess -- but at this point it's no more than a guess. The faun told Tay earlier that he's wise but not good, and now he's distancing himself from the faun who counseled Eremon (who's the stand-in for Heracles in this world). I think there is a bitter failure in our faun's past, something that reaches back to the death of the old gods. But we'll see...
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Date: 2018-06-08 03:39 am (UTC)As for "I am not that faun," I have a guess -- but at this point it's no more than a guess. The faun told Tay earlier that he's wise but not good, and now he's distancing himself from the faun who counseled Eremon (who's the stand-in for Heracles in this world). I think there is a bitter failure in our faun's past, something that reaches back to the death of the old gods. But we'll see...