Ciaphas Cain/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** There have been occasional mentions of having to organize firing squads, so it's safe to say he has at least off screen.

 

Dictionary.com defines memoirs "as a record of events written by a person ''having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation,''" and suggested synonyms are "journal, recollections, reminiscences." From [[That Other Wiki|Wikipedia,]] one writer states "a memoir is how one remembers one's own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked." Why does Amberley, who has described "the Cain archive" as memoirs, complain ad nauseum about how Cain's writing focuses on his own experiences to the exclusion of the bigger picture? Isn't that what memoirs are for? Cain's memoirs never purport to be an autobiography or a historical document, and Cain himself probably never expected anyone other than Amberley to ever read them (and maybe not even her); why is she surprised that something written for his own benefit focuses on him? This reaches Wallbanger territory for me when she criticizes him for not describing events/battles on the other side of the planet that he took no part in (as if she expected him to write a referenced history), especially when the battles in question were extensively covered by historians and Cain would not know anything that would add to those histories.

** It's probably less complaining for complaining's sake and more a reminder to her fellow Inquisitors that Cain's memoirs, which in some cases are the ''only'' remaining accounts of certain events, are not necessarily completely unbiased.

== Letting Soldiers out to [[Boldly Coming|Play]] on Keffia ==

 

* You are aware that this is the Imperial Guard, right?