Yeah, it might be more of a theme/image connection. Women in windows. (Trying to think of more of those in other books but drawing a blank for the moment - wait, the Inhumi young woman at one or two points on both Green and Blue?) Not sure what the significance would be, but it 'feels' kind of profound - something about longing and neglect and 'framing' and 'seeing' through the frame, the lense/glass? Of course, in terms of goddesses, 'women in windows' is a recurring motif of Long Sun. (Does Cassie Casey do any window sitting? The love interest lady [forgot the name!] in Pirate Freedom is looking at Chris through the window of the house where she serves at one point until the master tells her off for it.)<div>
<br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:soloviev@irit.fr">soloviev@irit.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
About Dorcas sitting in a window.<br>
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As far as I remember,<br>
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a) she was sitting after she was married<br>
b) it was a shop window, i.e. - ground floor<br>
c) it was in Nessus, at that time, at a lively city street<br>
d) in the Fechin story, it was more "rustic" paysage<br>
e) not the ground floor<br>
f) the Casdoe father could wait calmly outside<br>
while Fechin visited the girl - not very likely<br>
on some street in Nessus<br>
g) also the school described by Casdoe father looks<br>
very poor and "rustic".<br>
h) I don't remember what is said about the complexion<br>
of the girl visited by Fechin, but something was said,<br>
and it doesn't sound like Dorcas.<br>
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I am not convinced that it is the same situation.<br>
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Sergei<br>
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David Stockhoff wrote:<br>
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On 10/24/2011 1:57 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:<br>
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I can't even deal with all that here. Let me just focus on the window memory as an example. If we<br>
> accept that Dorcas' husband is Inire and we accept that Fechin is Inire, that mystery is solved.<br>
> The old person in Casdoe's cabin tells a story about Fechin's romantic meeting with a beautiful<br>
> young woman who sits in a window. I think she is Dorcas.<br>
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It's true that Dorcas herself remembers sitting in a window. That's a nice connection.<br>
<br>
I wonder if Wolfe was in a deep Proustian false memory-trance during the whole writing of TBotNS.<br>
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