Wolfe totally does read Archie like a book, a lot of the time, and I hadn't connected that to the lying in quite that way!
I also kind of feel like Wolfe is sort of protective of Archie about lying - that it's not that Archie couldn't, necessarily, but that lying is bad for your health and happiness, and Wolfe doesn't want to inflict that on Archie too much if he can help it. Wolfe is a man who values honesty even though he's quite fine being selectively truthful, and the way it's put is always about lying as a strain, a weight and a burden. I don't know whether it's just my slash goggles making it seem like the emphasis is on that rather than on any perceived lack of Archie's, but it always made sense to me. (Not even necessarily in a slashy way - though, um, yeah - but also just because Wolfe's past, or what we know of it, seems to make these things more directly apparent for him.)
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Date: 2010-04-24 02:46 pm (UTC)I also kind of feel like Wolfe is sort of protective of Archie about lying - that it's not that Archie couldn't, necessarily, but that lying is bad for your health and happiness, and Wolfe doesn't want to inflict that on Archie too much if he can help it. Wolfe is a man who values honesty even though he's quite fine being selectively truthful, and the way it's put is always about lying as a strain, a weight and a burden. I don't know whether it's just my slash goggles making it seem like the emphasis is on that rather than on any perceived lack of Archie's, but it always made sense to me. (Not even necessarily in a slashy way - though, um, yeah - but also just because Wolfe's past, or what we know of it, seems to make these things more directly apparent for him.)