From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Jim Hetley wrote:   
   > On Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 6:59:06 AM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
   >   
   >> I was thinking the other day that Grendel breaks into the mead hall at   
   >> night to slaughter thanes because he is a monster, and when we are   
   >> confronted with a monster, the reader wants the brutal Viking Beowulf.   
   >> That is what we call storytelling, and what we call writing is when we   
   >> give Beowulf a crippled wife and a hound with three legs; and we give   
   >> Grendel a backstory in which his mother the witch molested him and fed   
   >> him spoiled weasel meat.   
   >   
   > "Grendel" is a lost humanoid in GHOST POINT, wounded and hungry, dying in a   
   > Maine winter storm.  Beowulf rescues her . . .   
   >   
   I read a book once, named _American Assassin_, because I wanted to see   
   what a NYT Bestseller was.  The title character was a   
   swarthy-complexioned fellow who gads about Europe and systematically   
   executes dodgy bankers who move money about for Islamic terrorists,   
   with the idea of starving the terrorists of capital.  The protagonist   
   was essentially a monster-killer, pretty much like a Viking.   
      
   Another such book I read was _Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter_, in   
   which Lincoln doesn't give a crap about Abolitionism or Black people,   
   he only wants to wipe out CSA vampires by the strategy of freeing the   
   slaves through denying the enemy their cattle.  Lincoln, about as   
   complex a historical figure as one could want, is reduced to a Viking.   
      
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