*delurks* Admittedly it's been a long, long time since I've reread the Thief, but something about saying "the Gift didn't save Gen" doesn't seem right to me. One of the images of the book that always stood out to me was how Gen describes the feeling of being stabbed...if I remember right, he describes feeling as though something within him is stretched and pulled when the sword is pulled out of him. I think it's even something that should have broke...but didn't? And I'm pretty sure he also says later that he should have died, but didn't, and hated that feeling. And later he even comments that he's quite happy to get rid of the Gift because the experience spooked him so much.
Like I said, it's been a while, so maybe I falsely remembered all of this, but it's something that's stuck in my mind years after reading it...
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Date: 2/26/09 09:40 pm (UTC)Like I said, it's been a while, so maybe I falsely remembered all of this, but it's something that's stuck in my mind years after reading it...