Why is each of us born with a specific and different set of motivations and aptitudes? I agree with my friend, Andrea, that Fortuna rules.
"...Flandry had good reason to be complacent about his own abilities." (CHAPTER I, p. 7)
That is his ability to win a bet with Ivar del Bruno about Lady Diana Vinogradoff. I have always known people who were more confident and capable than I was in the matter of relations between the sexes but I do not envy them in other respects.
Flandry displays his callousness:
there was a woman whose name he does not remember;
she was not very good-looking even with biosculp;
he took her from fellow cadet Fenross for a joke;
he broke off with her;
she went a bit wild and died in an accident during a drunken party flying over the Saw on Venus;
Fenross has never looked at another woman;
Flandry clearly feels no sympathy for either of them.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, the youthful Flandry could be callous, the downside of his very real abilities and better qualities. And, to be fair, we do see Flanddry having a moment of sympathy for Fenross later in the story.
Ad astra! Sean
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