Marble, Trivs
The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Feb 1997
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Alice Turner — 23 Feb 1997, 06:29

> Re: adding Mint to the Marble Rose.  Start (IV, 313).  Then (IV,
> 380).  Still doubtful?  See (II, 208).  Neat, huh?

 
 Mantis, I don't think so. I had meant to point out that IV,379 (not 380)
 was clearly a typo, a proofer's error, and I think 313 (which I hadn't
 caught) is the same and that they both ought to be corrected before the
 paperback comes out. II,208 is one of Silk's fever dreams, of which there
 are several that merge identities--it can't be taken as proof of anything.
 
 Sorry, I did get it backward: Magnesia is Marble's "maiden"
 (pre-ordination) name. Molybdenum is the name of Hammersmith's former
 sweetie that she pretends to be.
 
 And I also erred in limiting Kypris to one screen in the face of my own
 theophany list (I wrote my last post just before going to the hospital for
 a few days for an infection, and obviously I was a bit light-headed
 myself--see Silk above). But that doesn't counter my general observation,
 which is that Kypris, and Kypris alone of the gods, was active before
 Mamelta did a fix-it.

> You ignore my paraphrasing of a Marble lie--I'm not sure why,
> because you deem it not "the" important lie (that of claiming to be
> Moly)?  The lie I went on about was a lie she was shrived (shriven?) for
> many times, which makes it seem of some import; it is a case where we
> have
> enough pieces to attempt to evaluate or judge the mendacity involved, to
>  try
> to see how Marble is perceiving things; etc.  Oh well.

 
 I didn't exactly ignore it, I meant that it wasn't the one that was
 upsetting her--and Silk too. That was the name change, quite clearly
 (IV,337, 359). Actually, I don't quite understand the shriving one. Could
 you spell it out?

> Then again, I don't know if you intended it, but your message seems
> to suggest that "image free" Sphigx of militaristic Trivigaunte is
> actually a Tartaros run operation.  Which I could certainly
> entertain. (Prior to this moment, I thought Tartaros was sleeping
> ala Cthulhu, like all the other major gods.  Except for the dead one,
> of course.  He's dead.)

 
 If this is me you're still addressing: no, I never intended that, and,
yes,
 I do think that Tartaros, like every other god but Kypris, was indeed
 deactivated or "sleeping" up until Mamelta's repairs. (And I suspect that
some of  them, those we never meet, are still deactivated.)

> Do you think that the rebellion on the Whorl anticipates (echoes) the
> rebellion on Urth?  Do you think that the end results are more
> different or more similar on post-exodus Whorl and post-Monarch Urth?
> Do you think it is a trap to think such thoughts?  Hmmm.

 
 No. Different. Yes.
 
 -alga-
 
 

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