Non-Anime Steps

[jpub]

Wanderer:
I see your point, and I guess I wasn't making mine properly. The universe of the Lensman books is absolute in that all the players of consequence in the stories (and by the philosophy espoused in the books, in the universe) are all absolutely good or evil.
If you're not one of those, then you're not that important. So yes, there are people who aren't at one end of the scale or the other - they're just not that important. Even people who "start bad and go good" change from one extreme to the other, almost like a switch.
Also, something to consider is that while we may view the "players" in the Lensman books as being not quite as pure or as vile as they claim, they were written in the 40's and 50's, so they must be read with the mindset of the day - while the concept of absolute good and evil are ridiculous to us today, they were very real, very concrete concepts to the people of the 40's and 50's, and very much so to EE Smith.--
Christopher Angel, aka JPublic
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