Did you assume I was unfamiliar with everything else Fraser ever wrote, or are you giving this list of his works for the benefit of other folks in this thread?
I had no idea whether or not you were familiar with Fraser's other works, but needed to reference them to make the argument I was trying to make, that Fraser had complicated (and maybe ultimately unresolved) views about force and violence and war and that QSOH is maybe more explicable in the context of those other works.
I am not a Fraser fan; I could not get very far into the first Flashman book, and my view that Harry Flashman the character isn't a defensible literary choice colours my views of everything else Fraser wrote. It's a bit like Mowat; I try to be sympathetic to Farley despite a career built on lying his ass off about real people and real things, and I try to be sympathetic to Fraser despite a career filled with never quite managing to move to the "axiomatic" part of "axiomatic necessity" no matter how much energy and research and struggle got expended on the "necessity" part.
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Date: 2017-08-06 01:13 pm (UTC)I had no idea whether or not you were familiar with Fraser's other works, but needed to reference them to make the argument I was trying to make, that Fraser had complicated (and maybe ultimately unresolved) views about force and violence and war and that QSOH is maybe more explicable in the context of those other works.
I am not a Fraser fan; I could not get very far into the first Flashman book, and my view that Harry Flashman the character isn't a defensible literary choice colours my views of everything else Fraser wrote. It's a bit like Mowat; I try to be sympathetic to Farley despite a career built on lying his ass off about real people and real things, and I try to be sympathetic to Fraser despite a career filled with never quite managing to move to the "axiomatic" part of "axiomatic necessity" no matter how much energy and research and struggle got expended on the "necessity" part.