--- Jenny Kaye wrote: >
Absolutely. The author is playing a double game.
Which means that the text allows for multiple readings - not one correct reading and then the readings of other people who haven't been paying attention.
"it's not my field" is
intellectual speak for "Whilst I have not
studied the
subject formally, I'm probably still right".
(in
Avon's case we can discount the probably).
Ah. Disagree. Avon sometimes gets it wrong.
Sorry, I was alluding to Avon's lack of humility, not his accuracy. But there is nothing in Breakdown to suggest that he is wrong in this occasion.
KAYN: A dangerous psychopath? Certainly. Or
would
you prefer he'd been executed?
Kayn also describes the crew as muderers,
maniacs and
mindless destroyers. This is really rather
inaccurate,
even in Season 4.
Yes, but when it comes to a surgical procedure he has to be more precise. If he isn't Renor, who would know these things and with whom he is arguing, would put him right.
He isn't arguing with Renor about surgical procedure. He's arguing with him about politics. The dynamic between Renor and Kayn is quite a complex one. Renor is obviously upset by Kayn's callousness and is torn between his natural deference to his senior and his objections to Kayn's actions. It would be wrong (from the writers point of view) to have Renor take Kayn literally and suggest that he has made an incorrect diagnosis. Also Kayn is a neuro-surgeon, not a clinical psychologist and is therefore probably prone to using terms from the other disciplines in a slap dash manner. I can imagine him describing someone as a schizophrenic, in the popular sense (split personality), rather than the clinical sense in a common room discussion merely to annoy the psychologists present.
Stephen.
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