[Dragaera] Vlad and his father

[Maximilian Wilson]

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.

-Max

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