Re: Book Discussion - Monstrous Regiment

(Anonymous) 2018-08-09 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Jackrum always reminds me of what Le Guin said she wanted to do with Estraven, in Left Hand of Darkness: "I was privately delighted at watching, not a man, but a manwoman, do all these things, and do them with considerable skill and flair." I don't know if it's so much a competence kink, but I love the way Jackrum knows how to handle nearly everything, and it's based on that keen sympathetic but clear perception, like Polly has (and Vimes). (In fact this book is such a mirror of the first couple of Watch books, with Jackrum and Vimes, and maybe Angua and Polly, in corresponding roles.)