Comments (12)

• Marvelous TK 13 years ago archived

  "Want to run right into the fire without a plan? Sure, let me get the door for ya." Why, Gladys?

  • Sturzkampf 13 years ago archived

    She'd fit in well with our D&D party. "No Surrender. No Retreat. No Plan."

• SpitefulFox 13 years ago archived

  Not gonna at least take a glass of the good stuff for the trip up the dumbwaiter?

• exms 13 years ago archived

  Nora has an awful lot of courage for a coward. Just sayin'

  • Kate A 13 years ago archived

    Who said she was a coward?

    • exms 13 years ago archived

      She did so herself -- she "has a sister [...] and I know she'd have worked this out and escaped by now, but I - well, that's not how I am."

      • Kate A 13 years ago archived

        It's funny how often someone's opinion of themselves and the reality of things often don't match.

        
        

        Also, to pull back the hood for a second- the idea is that she's coming out of her shell a little more with each encounter with Alexa, every time she breaks the rules just a little bit further and gets just a little bit bolder.

  • Volkspanzer 13 years ago archived

    That's... actually the very definition of courage -- to do something you must even if you're afraid to do it. Someone who is fearless doesn't exactly equate to courageous.

    • exms 13 years ago archived

      Nora, in fact, embodies Aristotles very definition of the brave: she knows that there is a risk in proceeding, is properly afraid of the risk, and is going forward anyway. (For instance, Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Ch 3., Sec 9.)

    • john 13 years ago archived

      Also worth remembering is that the line between being fearless and being foolhardy can be difficult to see, particular for the person taking a risk which does not scare them even though it probably ought to.

    • Graham Garrett 11 years ago archived

      Yeah, I think being fearless is closer to idiocy. XD

• Sturzkampf 13 years ago archived

  By Scottish standards, she is barely tipsy. To quote Dean Martin: "you're not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on".