<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Mobile</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;"> (415) 786-3624</span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Skype </span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);">stuart.hamm<br>myspace.com/stuhamm<br></span></span></span></font><font><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"> stuarthamm.net</span></span></span></font><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 10/8/08, Stuart Hamm <i><hammstu@sbcglobal.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;">From: Stuart Hamm <hammstu@sbcglobal.net><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Shades of beige<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:49 PM<br><br><div id="yiv371535630"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">
If Carrie is a beast-woman (and I still don't see anything to suggest that)<br><br>Page 206<br>Gideon is explaining how to spot a werewolf "They're sensitive to odors and insensitive to colors."<br>page 207<br>"Cassie had received the first covered dish.When she removed the cover the aroma made her mouth water in actual fact."<br><br>Not like GW to telegraph it...maybe the being insensitive to colors figures in as well...<br><br>S<br><br><div style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><font><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Mobile</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman;"> (415) 786-3624</span><br><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> Skype </span> <span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);">stuart.hamm<br>myspace.com/stuhamm<br></span></span></span></font><font><span style="color: rgb(128,
0, 0);"><span style="font-family: system;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 20, 21);"> stuarthamm.net</span></span></span></font><br></div><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 10/8/08, Mr Thalassocrat <i><thalassocrat08@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Shades of beige<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:21 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1892616771"><div dir="ltr"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Adam Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br>On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Mr Thalassocrat wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">We get an explanation from Gid for at least one character's preferred colour styling: werewolves wear shades of grey.<br>
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<div>One of the people who kidnaps/arrests Margaret wears "a birch suit with those black stripes". Another wolf? A hyena? A zebra, perhaps? </div>
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<div>Scott wears a "bone-white-and-Chablis seersucker suit". A white wolf? An incontinent polar bear? Anyway, something unpleasant, no doubt. (Gid actually says shades of grey or white, for werewolves.)</div>
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<div>If Carrie is a beast-woman (and I still don't see anything to suggest that), then I guess the color preference rule would make her beast-part something green. Tree frog? <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Red-eyed_Tree_Frog_-_Litoria_chloris_edit1.jpg">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Red-eyed_Tree_Frog_-_Litoria_chloris_edit1.jpg</a> I guess maybe not :) </div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Eg: Almost all of the story is tightly focused on Cassie - we see what she sees, and so on. But there are three scenes where the focus is on Gid sans Cassie: at the start, when he's shot, and when he's spirited away from Cassie's apartment after being shot. After that: no more Gid-focus. I really don't understand that. If you're going to shift focus to another character at some points, why not at others, and why not to others?<br>
</blockquote><br></div>And the first scene *makes no sense* as a framing device. Right? I mean, *The President Of The United States*? *Really?*
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<div>Pick up thre book, skim the first few pages, toss it. Risky! But I guess the little god&evil dialog must be intended to frame a theme. I do find it quite difficult to unpack Gid's position on this, so I'm not sure how this is supposed to work.</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">A bunch other things. Overall, either there's a lot of hidden stuff going on here (and Wolfe has taken some scary risks that people will just toss the book without caring enough to puzzle it out); or else he's jumped the Shark-God (except for the beautiful writing in the last third).<br>
<br></blockquote></div>I enjoyed this one a lot more than _Pirate Freedom_.<br><br>I think there's something to be gained from looking at it as a Lovecraftian story.</blockquote>
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<div>I hope that isn't something you need to do to make sense of it - I have zero interest in HPL. Which obviously may be why I have probs with the book.</div>
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<div>Here's one thing I don't get at all: India calls Gil her "Hitler". ????????????</div></div><br></div>
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