01-01-2008, 08:15 PM
Clarification:
When I say that Carlos fucked up, I mean that he cannot claim that "sorcerer" is an inadequate term the same way that DJ could. We find plenty of evidence for this in the books where DJ warns him that he is merging more with the line of old sorcerers. And then we have the evidence of his life and death. There is no evidence at all to claim that he achieved freedom as DJ did.
To me, the character DJ in the books is the example of freedom and the character CC is the antithesis of that... in the early books he's dumb and slow and indulgent and in the later books this indulgent spirit evolves into, or manifests as, his inclination towards the old sorcerers' ways in his dreaming and AP shifts.
I don't think this is my opinion. This is what the books say.
He achieved freedom from average human membership. I've no problem in granting him that, and that that is an ideal for all of us. But there are plenty of things to trap one after that - manipulating our fellowmen, the four natural enemies, the voice of the dreaming emissary, inorganic beings, never giving up the sorcerers' description (which has the same tones as clarity and power, IMO)... Freedom from membership is only the first step into a predatory universe. One is more vulnerable than when they had their human shields. There are more "freedoms": losing the human form, darting past the Eagle, the fire from within, cracking the cocoon open so that the emanations within merge with the emanations without (infinity)...
When I say that Carlos fucked up, I mean that he cannot claim that "sorcerer" is an inadequate term the same way that DJ could. We find plenty of evidence for this in the books where DJ warns him that he is merging more with the line of old sorcerers. And then we have the evidence of his life and death. There is no evidence at all to claim that he achieved freedom as DJ did.
To me, the character DJ in the books is the example of freedom and the character CC is the antithesis of that... in the early books he's dumb and slow and indulgent and in the later books this indulgent spirit evolves into, or manifests as, his inclination towards the old sorcerers' ways in his dreaming and AP shifts.
I don't think this is my opinion. This is what the books say.
He achieved freedom from average human membership. I've no problem in granting him that, and that that is an ideal for all of us. But there are plenty of things to trap one after that - manipulating our fellowmen, the four natural enemies, the voice of the dreaming emissary, inorganic beings, never giving up the sorcerers' description (which has the same tones as clarity and power, IMO)... Freedom from membership is only the first step into a predatory universe. One is more vulnerable than when they had their human shields. There are more "freedoms": losing the human form, darting past the Eagle, the fire from within, cracking the cocoon open so that the emanations within merge with the emanations without (infinity)...