tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post2412070979907592998..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: First Vance PostBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-9160946085916267592010-01-03T01:44:04.764-05:002010-01-03T01:44:04.764-05:00I have no doubt that Jack was familiar with his wo...<i>I have no doubt that Jack was familiar with his work.</i><br />The name 'Lurulu' is a giveaway...<br />There's a ludic quality to Dunsany's writing... he does not take a stand on the morality of his characters' behaviour, nor is he concerned with their fates, for it is just a game for him. I see a lot of that in Vance's moral relativity about the societies he constructs, which are all bizarre and ethically challenged (but no more so than our own), while the nearest he ever comes to inserting himself in a story as a Mary Sue character would be Baron Bodissey.<br /><br /><i>Wodehouse listed as influences</i><br />Also Ernest Bramah, I suspect:<br /><i>Kai Lung rose guardedly to his feet, with many gestures of polite assurance and having bowed several times to indicate his pacific nature, he stood in an attitude of deferential admiration. At this display the elder and less attractive of the maidens fled, uttering loud and continuous cries of apprehension in order to conceal the direction of her flight.</i><br /><br />Any list of people influenced by Vance should include Barrington Bayley. Make it so.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-35083270796721979052010-01-02T22:33:07.620-05:002010-01-02T22:33:07.620-05:00Please be more specific. Are we talking about indi...<i>Please be more specific. Are we talking about indigo? Whelk purple? Madder?</i><br /><br />The dye is derived from a fluke-like arboreal parasite native to a small island off the coast of the main continent of the planet Krokinole, in the Rigel Concourse.<br /><br /><i>Don't know if that shows up in his style, though.</i><br /><br />Dunsany's prose is every bit as purple as Vance's, and I have no doubt that Jack was familiar with his work. The preponderance of weird, whimsical religious cults in the works of both CAS and JV probably had a lot to do with Lord Dunsany's works.<br /><br />JV is also on record as listing Wodehouse as an influence... <a href="http://www.zone-sf.com/jackvance.html" rel="nofollow">BINGO!</a> Dunsany and Wodehouse both listed as influences in author profile.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-58730547824565549792010-01-02T20:12:19.505-05:002010-01-02T20:12:19.505-05:00villain of the deepest dye
Please be more specific...<i>villain of the deepest dye</i><br />Please be more specific. Are we talking about indigo? Whelk purple? Madder?<br /><br />Vance seems to be an admirer of Lord Dunsany, enough to name his last novel after a minor character from <i>The King of Elfland's Daughter</i>. Don't know if that shows up in his style, though.Smut Clydehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09409476490132867809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-48781565234100023392010-01-02T17:14:26.498-05:002010-01-02T17:14:26.498-05:00Ooooh, don't give them any legal legs on which...<i>Ooooh, don't give them any legal legs on which to stand. It's still a free country, enjoy it while it lasts.</i><br /><br />I wouldn't want to rip off my man JV in his old age!<br /><br /><i>You're a maundering mooncalf!</i><br /><br />Thus and so, the mask is torn aside, and ittdgy is revealed as a villain of the deepest dye!Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-5249012646864069342010-01-02T10:31:38.339-05:002010-01-02T10:31:38.339-05:00You're a maundering mooncalf!You're a maundering mooncalf!ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-76713390875618187752010-01-02T05:02:04.879-05:002010-01-02T05:02:04.879-05:00Ooooh, don't give them any legal legs on which...Ooooh, don't give them any legal legs on which to stand. It's still a free country, enjoy it while it lasts.<br /><br />Great story. Read it in an anthology just last yr. Uh, I mean, in 2008.M. Bouffanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04519088858760760560noreply@blogger.com