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Life and times of Repairman Jack - KRW - 11-09-2005
Scott Miller Wrote:Did you have it reduced due to back pain?
I'm UTTERly at a lose for words. TIT's a problem every cow and then. I am aBREAST of the problem and I know I made a BOOB of myself. In conversations like this I sometimes sag, but I promise to perk up!
KRW
Life and times of Repairman Jack - Ken Valentine - 11-10-2005
Ossicle Wrote:Jack IS a criminal.
I suppose that depends on how you define "criminal."
To me, a criminal is someone who victimizes others. Jack doesn't do this. Instead, he brings justice to those who do victimize others.
By that standard, because he lives outside the law, Jack is an outlaw -- but he is not a criminal. There's a difference.
Ken V.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - Ken Valentine - 11-10-2005
EldoradoEd Wrote:Of course, he doesn't pay his fair share of taxes, does he?
You mean, submit to being robbed, don't you?
TANSTAAFT! There Ain't No Such Thing As A Fair Tax.
Ken V.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - Ken Valentine - 11-10-2005
smithers52 Wrote:Sorry I spilled the beans on that one. Should have posted SPOILERS.
Right, and Jack didn't want to get involved because he would get questioned by police and authorities afterwards. Well it's been some time since I read the novel so my apologies for getting the facts jumbled.
As I see it, Jack was disgusted with those who who would leave the defense of their lives to somebody else.
Just as I am.
Ken V.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - Ken Valentine - 11-10-2005
EldoradoEd Wrote:True, but he goes out of his way to deliver justice. Especially if connected to Otherness. He says that he's only in it for the fee, but he finds a way to combine fixes and he has lowered fees even when he says he *never* does that. Although the cross purposes in the fixes seem to be pre-ordained, right.
He's a Paladin.
Ken V.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - EldoradoEd - 11-10-2005
Ken Valentine Wrote:I suppose that depends on how you define "criminal."
To me, a criminal is someone who victimizes others. Jack doesn't do this. Instead, he brings justice to those who do victimize others.
By that standard, because he lives outside the law, Jack is an outlaw -- but he is not a criminal. There's a difference.
Ken V.
Outlaw is certainly more romantic. Makes me think of Butch and the Sundance Kid. Essentially the same, just professional.
I like Paladin. He is that.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - t4terrific - 11-10-2005
EldoradoEd Wrote:Outlaw is certainly more romantic. Makes me think of Butch and the Sundance Kid. Essentially the same, just professional.
I like Paladin. He is that.
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid were thieves. They did victimize others.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - EldoradoEd - 11-10-2005
t4terrific Wrote:Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid were thieves. They did victimize others.My point was that the term Outlaw would apply to them, and has been routinely applied to criminals of the old west. They were professional criminals, living outside the law.
Ok, I don't mean to be anal, (but I am sometimes) so I looked this up, and we're right.
outlaw adj.
Word History: The word outlaw brings to mind the cattle rustlers and gunslingers of the Wild West, but it comes to us from a much earlier time, when guns were not yet invented but cattle stealing was. Outlaw can be traced back to the Old Norse word tlagr, “outlawed, banished,” made up of t, “out,” and lög, “law.” An tlagi (derived from tlagr) was someone outside the protection of the law. The Scandinavians, who invaded and settled in England during the 8th through the 11th century, gave us the Old English word tlaga, which designated someone who because of criminal acts had to give up his property to the crown and could be killed without recrimination. The legal status of the outlaw became less severe over the course of the Middle Ages. However, the looser use of the word to designate criminals in general, which arose in Middle English, lives on in tales of the Wild West.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Outlaw
Life and times of Repairman Jack - Scott Miller - 11-10-2005
KRW Wrote:I'm UTTERly at a lose for words. TIT's a problem every cow and then. I am aBREAST of the problem and I know I made a BOOB of myself. In conversations like this I sometimes sag, but I promise to perk up!
KRW
Perhaps an augmentation is in order and then your cups shall runneth over.
Life and times of Repairman Jack - KRW - 11-10-2005
Scott Miller Wrote:Perhaps an augmentation is in order and then your cups shall runneth over.
If I did that, I probably would never leave the mirror!
Did that sound vain, because I meant it as horny!
KRW