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On 12/13/2010 11:28 AM, James Wynn wrote:
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<div>>James Wynn: I mean, I might have just been lucky in
picking my interpretation. <br>
>However, it brings to mind Lee's young woman/crone
picture analogy. <br>
>Or, Stephen King's ink blot/picture of Jesus analogy in
"The Shining". <br>
>When I read it, I said "Oh, Pike, Blood, Rose of
Sharon."</div>
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<div>Jerry Friedman-<br>
Would you mind making the connection for me among those
three disparate nouns? (Not the</div>
<div>connection among the characters.) Or point me to
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The spear that pierced Christ's side. What can I say? That's just
the way I'm wired, I guess. I even thought the reference was
obvious when I wrote it this morning. Clearly, I'm a little crazy,
but sometimes it works. It gives me an appreciation for Wolfe's
problem with getting his clues across.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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Jerry,<br>
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Perhaps you are asking yourself "If that is the intended connection,
shouldn't Blood have had a twin whose name is associated with
water?" That's what I thought too as I was reading the books for the
first time. I still wonder. But, once you are looking for it, the
clues to Blood's father seems obvious.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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