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I re-read Toll the Hounds this past weekend Larry Send a noteboard - 08/10/2012 10:11:56 PM
I had a different take on the bully issue than you did. I think what Erikson was condemning there was the cyclical nature of the damage, especially in regards to the dangers of confronting a bully with just a larger version of such violence. He didn't seem to be presenting Snell as an embodiment of evil as much as a victim who acts out his own hurts upon others. He is a bit "broken" as well, which perhaps may be a small-scale parallel to others that are emotionally (physically?) "crippled?" ;)
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

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