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>Well, the ickyness of _Wasp Factory_ was much more immediate, less
>removed; Zakalwe in UoW was *capable* of great evil, sure, and had in
>fact perpetrated great evil in the past, but at the time of the later
>timeline in the book (this is really hard to talk about, we need more
>tenses or something) I didn't have the impression that he *would*.
>Again, I really need to reread it, because the second time through,
>when you know who Zakalwe really is and what he has done, I can easily
>see that his later actions, after The Chair, would appear in a
>different light. And while the Culture is *capable* of evil, in the
>sense of pure physical prowess, they're too nice to actually bother
>with it -- Special Circumstances might screw something up, but they
>always mean well, for some not too unreasonable definitions of "well".
>Certainly they aren't out blowing up stars with inhabited systems for
>_fun_, though they certainly could.
But how about the way they "use" the man called Cheradenine Zakalwe?
Instead of shipping him off for major mindwashing, or feeding him
forgetfulness drugs, they keep him in his own private hell just
because he is a useful weapon for them...
Brad DeLong
