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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Adam Thornton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adam@io.com" target="_blank">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="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Red-eyed_Tree_Frog_-_Litoria_chloris_edit1.jpg" target="_blank">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="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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>