(urth) Grand Unified Theory
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Sun Aug 29 18:22:43 PDT 2010
> Roy - Yes, she eats, as I pointed out when I was shooting down the
> Hy-is-a-male-chem theory. It was *because* she was so hungry that Auk went
> to the market at the beginning of chapter 3 of EXODUS.[61-63]
As I told you then, I'm inclined to trust Marble's observations above
the motivations Hy gave to her abductors for sending them on errands.
> The soldier emerged into the street, evoking another awed silence. Revealed,
> Hyacinth chewed and gulped, wiping her hands on her soiled gown. "That was a
> nectarine, I think, and I think I swallowed the pit. I can't remember
> spitting it out. Maybe I chewed it up. Thelx, was it good!" (63)
Does it not bother you just a little bit that we don't actually SEE Hy
eat that nectarine? (if a nectarine it was) You don't see that the
choking and sputtering are potentially an easy distraction while
disposing of the food? She even has an excuse for there being no pit.
What is she supposed to be? Part pelican? Who swallows a nectarine whole
regardless of how hungry they are?
> No one was invited to the wedding. It was done on the spur of the moment.
> Not long after the wedding, Silk and Hy were taken prisoner and put aboard
> the airship. When they got back to Viron, there was a shooting war going on
> and the book ends. We learn very little of what happened between Silk and Hy
> in SS, during their twenty years together. How she got along with her family
> wasn't important enough to mention.
Silk met Hy's "father" at the Juzgado. Hy met her mother in Mainframe.
Hy's family members are not unimportant to the author. Those meetings
were significant enough that the author strangely excised them from the
story. Even if I'm wrong about Hy and Fava, this explanation just
doesn't wash.
> But I am rather curious how Hy's estranged husband, that dandy captain,
> Serval, fits into this Fava business.
Indeed!
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