Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:18:34 -0600, Wes Struebing wrote:
>> overbearingly condescending.  He is one of the more flawed characters
>> that JMS populated the B5 universe with.

> I'm starting to think most did not like him because he had no redeeming
> qualities.

But he did. "Then what would you hope to get out of four, five or six 
that you did not get out of one, two and three?"

Sometimes you're Mohandas Gandhi, sometimes you're Sabbatai Zevi. 
Sometimes you're George Washington, sometimes you're Maximilien 
Robespierre. The human race still needs men like Byron, and yet....

Near the end of Dorothy L. Sayers' chronicle play, "The Emperor 
Constantine", St. Helena has the following exchange with her son:

     HELENA: To forgive and to spare are not always the same.
     You spared Maximian and Licinius once--did you forgive them?

     CONSTANTINE: [surprised by a new idea] Why, no--I suppose
     not. I didn't care for them enough. I wanted to be magnanimous....

There's something of Constantine in Byron. To quote another English 
dramatist of that generation,

     The last temptation is the greatest treason:
     To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

People think that when Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart," He 
was talking about not reading "Playboy"; He was not.

And so Byron began by doing the right deed for the wrong reason, and 
ended by doing the wrong deed for the right reason.
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