Eyes of Thecla

JWillard · 02 May 2006, 20:03 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: aldenweer at charter.net (JWillard)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:03:36 -0500
Subject: (urth) Eyes of Thecla
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Andy Robertson wrote:

>b sharp writes: 
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>>I don't know of any other characters who are described as having very large 
>>violet or purple eyes, so it is difficult to call the similarity a 
>>coincidence, especially since both descriptions first appear in Shadow. But 
>>what connection can there be between these two?  I have some vague thoughts 
>>involving the kaibit process but I'm interested in any ideas others might 
>>have.
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>"Violet eyes" is just a poetic way of saying dark blue eyes. 
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>Blue eyes are not found among animals, only among humans. 
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>But "blue-eyed" also has poetic connotations of outdoorsy, healthy, 
>sunburned, blonde, natural, happy, which Wolfe does not want to bring up in 
>connection with the paramours of the Autarch, who should be surpassingly 
>beautiful but sick, like the dying Urth. 
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>This isn't complex, but in this case I **think** it's the whole story. 
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>Wolfe has a wonderful way of implying much in a few words, and if you pick 
>those words apart you won't always find a conscious construction under them. 
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Pg. 5 of Peace has this line:  "Violet-eyed and black-haired, my aunt 
Olivia..."  This is one of those lines I've been hung up on for a while, 
cursing my lack of eternity to make notes on such things as hair and eye 
color in the Lupiverse.

Which brings me to a more serious question I've been entertaining for a 
while as well.  Does someone out there know how to set up a wiki?  Is 
there any reason we couldn't have a wiki-Wolfe, to start referencing 
answers to questions like this?  (If there's a Battlestar wiki, why not 
a wiki-Wolfe?)   Is this a terrible idea?  Is it a copyright problem?  
I'm only semi-literate when it comes to computer things, so please, 
someone, make the case for or against.

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