"Belisarius, The Last Roman General" has some parallel with "Dominic Flandry, the Last Knight of Terra," although it is to be hoped that SM Stirling's and David Drake's character, Raj Whitehall, is not the last of his kind.
Friday, 9 August 2019
The Last, At Least For Today
"Belisarius, The Last Roman General" has some parallel with "Dominic Flandry, the Last Knight of Terra," although it is to be hoped that SM Stirling's and David Drake's character, Raj Whitehall, is not the last of his kind.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I'll be interested in whatever Mr. Romer chose to write about in the works of Poul Anderson.
"Only" two blog posts yesterday? Compared to many other "one man" blots, you run very busy blogs!
Of course I have long known Drake/Stirling had the our real world Belisarius in mind when crafting the character of Raj Whitehall. But I was kinda waiting for you to realize that.
Yes, we see Raj Whitehall becoming a great soldier who was also aware of the costs and tragedies of war and now it often forced him to making decisions he would really rather not have made.
I had not thought of analogizing the "last Roman general" with Dominic Flandry as the last knight of Terra.
Seam
Sorry. Ms. Romer.
Kaor, Paul!
No problem! I've made bloopers here too! (Smiles)
Sean
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