In article <102maol$sk97$1@dont-email.me>,
Evelyn C. Leeper <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> wrote:

Dinios Kol (Din for short) is a new apprentice investigator
assigned to Investigator Anagosa Dolabra (Ana, as you might
guess). Ana is an unusual investigator in that she stays in her
own abode most of the time and remains blindfolded in order to
avoid overstimulation. Ana claims this allows her to concentrate
better, and that may be true, but I suspect that the real reason
is that she has a disability that makes it difficult to be around
other people or external distractions. Thus, she sends Din to do
the investigating for her, he reports back what he has found, and
she uses incredible reasoning skills to figure out what's going
on. Din is helped by the fact that he is an Engraver, a sublime
(we'll get to that) who is imbued with perfect memory. This
ability allows him to recall conversations, pictures, writing
(although that is difficult for him as he has much trouble reading
(we'll also get to that)) and all sorts of things that make him
invaluable to Ana.

[Hal Heydt]
What immediately comes to mind from that description of the pair
is Nero Wolfe and ARchy Goodwin, Wolfe's "leg man". Or if you
prefer an SF reworking of that pair, Randall Garrett's Marquise
de London and Lord Bontriomphe

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"Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com> writes:

first we have Deagol who finds
TOR. Almost immediately, Smeagol murders him for the Ring. So
both of them seem to have been corrupted by merely being in the
presence of TOR.

How do you see D\'eagol as having been corrupted, esp. given that he had
the Ring for about ten seconds? Sure he wanted to keep the Ring, but
that's not unreasonable given that he found it. I read the passage as
the Ring deciding that Sm\'eagol would make a more suitable host (and,
as it turns out, probably having been wrong).

--
Steve Coltrin spcoltri@omcl.org
"A group known as the League of Human Dignity helped arrange for Deuel
to be driven to a local livestock scale, where he could be weighed."
- Associated Press

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