--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "foxbrick" <foxbrick@...> wrote:
>
> That's [Anarchaos is] a kind way of putting it. As I've noted at
length on Ed
> Gorman's blog, this is easily and by far my least favorite Westlake,
> since it so blatantly misrepresnts even the worst of the anarchist
> figures, much less the best of them, he cites as the progenitors of
> the insane society portrayed here (a colony of Parkers on another
> planet).
I took it to be just a crazy ride written without much seriousness. I
didn't take offense at the portrayals, though Anarchaos not a favorite
of mine, either, not by a long shot. I have a hunch that he had two
ideas going and he tried to join them...
Best,
mrt
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