Glen -
Good analysis with some extra angles, thanks... Card's
conception/formulation is not unlike all of his, wonderfully (by some
measure) clever and out-of-the-box whilst being derived from Card's own
nature/embedding in the culture he was born/raised to.
I like your invocation of the
Both Knox (who's back in Italian court) and Robinson are atheists, but I guess practice Zen. This
leads to an interesting inside vs outside conception of who they "are". It strikes me
that no amount of studying a person (or, more accurately, the detritus they've left behind and the
dissipating
