[Dragaera] Vlad and his father

[Frank Mayhar]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:40 -0700, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:
> > An idle notion while re-reading.  Vlad almost never talks about his
> > father, and when he does, he is usually contemptuous or dismissive.  But
> > it's rare for two chapters to go by without Vlad's deep and abiding love
> > of cooking and eating being mentioned.  And who do you think he learned
> > those things from?  While we don't, strictly speaking, *know* the answer
> > to that, his father the restaurateur seems the most obvious candidate.  So
> > it seems that, in some senses, his father's influence on him is incredibly
> > strong.
> 
> Possible. On the other hand, it's also possible that love of food is
> simply an inherited trait which Vlad and dad happen to share. On the
> third hard, dad's picky attitude toward finger foods (in /Issola/)
> could have reinforced whatever picky tendencies Vlad inherited,
> whether Vlad liked him as a person or not.

Speaking from (bitter) personal experience, one doesn't have to _like_
ones father to be influenced by him.  In ways good, bad and indifferent.
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