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[On first reading I read this as "the goddess at sixteen inches", which is apt, if not what it actually says in the story :-) ] Anyway: "The boy who owned her's been dead now fo…
28 Jan 2003, 19:54
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The lady in the haberdasher's called Tina a "magic doll", and in a world with a real goddess that has to be a possibility, as Mantis suggested. But at lunch with Lora, Green talks …
27 Jan 2003, 11:37
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This is a great theory. I notice that Ardis switches off the light in a hurry just as Nadan is about to undo her laces, which fits nicely. On a more literary note, this is the Per…
08 May 2002, 16:28
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I recall that he explicitly denied that Blue and Green were St Anne and St Croix. Could that be what you are thinking of? Spectacled Bear.…
09 Jan 2002, 09:55
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I think this is one cut at each end of the portion of vine used to make the staff. The tip of the vine wouldn't be much use even if you could find it. Cugino cuts off a length of v…
03 Dec 2001, 11:00
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I heard recently that not only did far more of the German high command agree with this beforehand than would admit to it afterwards, but that it nearly succeeded. A getaway train w…
14 Aug 2001, 14:13
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Thanks for that, alga! I finished the series just last night, and I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who didn't consider it entirely satisfactory. The plot of the third book is …
24 May 2001, 18:33
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The Changer swaps things with cognates, i.e. rough equivalents. The thing moving under the leaves is surely a Copperhead snake, which has been swapped with a Serpent from another u…
04 May 2001, 17:53
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At 21:04 2001-04-19, James Jordan wrote (on the Whorl list): Now that's interesting. One very striking thing about the book is the way it has detailed action within the chapters, …
24 Apr 2001, 13:39
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... <<<< The Flyers are "little people", reminiscent of Fairies in their size and secretiveness. And Celticness, I suppose. They are the crew, and the bridge is the bridge of the …
09 Feb 2001, 13:35
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At 10:23 2001-02-08 +0000, Adamwrote: ... Well, they *are* writing a book, and you must admit it reads better this way. It's a dramatised account, not a dry history, so I think th…
08 Feb 2001, 18:13
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At 04:20 2001-02-02 -0800, Shannon wrote: ... I love those amazing schizophrenic conversations - my favourite is Maytera Marble channelling Maytera Rose and changing PoV practical…
08 Feb 2001, 12:51
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... A literary echo, I think. The only hint as to how the azoth works is given when we first see it in _Nightside_, which talks about reality splitting in two. The fuligin cloaks …
08 Feb 2001, 12:51
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