Thanks for the opinion! I have Starmaker on the shelf, bought lifetimes ago and... never read. Likewise I have not read Herbert not Tolkien... And now I think

Thanks for the opinion! I have Starmaker on the shelf, bought lifetimes ago and... never read. Likewise I have not read Herbert not Tolkien... And now I think I'll slot the Starmaker and then perhaps Dune for the upcoming summer balcony reading period. ...Which makes me point to the core point: there are those low-level notions that are pretty much mutually exclusive. I for one learned quickly that there is no "true good", and that there is no "true evil", either. Managing to get older my current perspective on this dichotomy is thus: 1) Perfect Good = you're with everyone and everything is perfect... But it's a static frame. Nothing can ever change - as the only change would be straying from the attained perfection! 2) Perfect Evil = and you're fully free to do whatever you want! And have the power to do so! But... you're fully and truly alone. And being the supreme evil of this multiverse you can't end yourself. As in, you can _obviously_, but then you... come back. And thus both ends of this coin are different but equivalent. Nothing of interest at the logical conclusions.