RE: [DL] A Survey [so Marguerite has something to read ;-)]

["Clint Black" <cblack@ohtinc.com>]

>Actually, someone put Henry H. Holmes, and even though Chicago isn't really
the Wild West, he >certainly counts as a Villain for the period. He was a
bad, bad man, custom-made for a Shytown->bound posse to run into.

I'm unfamiliar with Holmes, so I can't comment.  Can you elucidate?

>Alternately, it seems like people such as "Bloody" Bill Anderson and
William Quantrill fit pretty >well. Politics aside, they were responsible
for some pretty organized carnage.

True, but to me they're not really "villains."  Not that I'm saying they
weren't bad, but it's more like they're killers who happened to be in the
right place at the right time to fill their lust for blood.  To me, a
"villain" is someone who has a goal (normally a self-serving goal, but
occasionally noble), and that person is willing to do *anything* to attain
that goal.

That's why I like Hellstrome; he has goal I can relate to.  The thing is, he
doesn't care who he uses, hurts, kills, or destroys to achieve his ends.

Once more, it's my definition, but to me that's a "villain."

Oh, and as to Tesla, he's not "mad"... he's crazy!  ;-)  Seriously, he's a
good choice.


Clint Black

"You smell that? Do you smell that? ...Ghost Rock, son. Nothing else in the
world smells like that. I love the smell of ghost rock in the morning. You
know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over
I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' Yank body. The
smell, you know that sulphurous smell, the whole hill. Smelled like...
victory. Someday this war's gonna end..."