However, a well-written thriller makes us feel that more than this is happening. First, usually, the stakes being fought for are very high. Secondly, death is always a matter of ultimate concern to those whom it affects.
Manse Everard says - where? - that cinema violence obscures the fact that each death is the end of an individual consciousness. We need to remember that every time it happens.
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Kaor, Paul!
And it was not just Manse Everard who had compassion for those he had to kill in the line of duty, but also Dominic Flandry. This bit from the revised version of "Tiger by the Tail" came to mind, as the collapse of the Scothan hegemony he had engineered was going on: "Flandry stood at a high window and looked across the city. He felt no elation. Down there in the smoke, sentient beings lay dead. More would perish before the end of upheaval. The whole number would merely be in the hundreds, he guessed; the dead of the entire war were probably less than a million. Yet each of those heads had borne a cosmos within it."
Sean
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