(urth) AEG clones...send them in

[David Stockhoff]

May I say that this is the strangest post I have yet seen on this listserv. And the AEG discussions are usually pretty damn weird, if you haven't read the thing.

I'm impressed and a little apprehensive, but I'm waiting for the paperback ...

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Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:51:26 -0700
From: Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com>
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Henry Eissler wrote:

> >     You were the one that pointed out that Gideon may have infused her 
> > with the spirit of the banshee - the Washer at the Ford.  I think the 
> > Cassie part of Cassie came close to dying on the Volcano God's island, 
> > but that last line at the end shows that she's not gone- she's the one 
> > that liked to call him "Wally."
> >     As to why Dr. Chase would have wanted to put the spirit of a 
> > mountain god's wife into her... who knows.
> >   
>   
I don't think Cassie was infused with a different spirit. Chase speaks 
of energizing her innate star potential (p. 41). I pretty much gave up 
on the "Washer at the Ford" theory after I found another reference that 
fit better. Here it is, as I wrote it up for WolfeWiki:

    * "A mountain whose wife washed clothes?" (pp. 41-42, 83) is a
      reference to Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
      <http://craphound.com/someone/Cory_Doctorow_-_Someone_Comes_to_Town_Someone_Leaves_Town.htm>
      by Cory Doctorow. The protagonist Alan's father was a mountain and
      his mother was a washing machine. Credit for discovering this
      belongs to Marc Aramini. It's a perfect match:

   1. The mountain quakes when it's angry.
   2. There are gnomes and golems in its caves.
   3. The setting is near Toronto, Canada. (The protagonist goes to
      Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto, at one point).
   4. The nearest large mountain to Toronto is Blue Mountain. There is a
      trek to the summit which takes about 2.5 hours on foot.



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