Peace, and colors, and murder, and games

Adam Thornton · 28 Aug 2008, 02:29 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:29:51 -0700
Subject: (urth) Peace, and colors, and murder, and games
Message-ID: <B311AD59-D351-43F5-91AC-66D671F0F1CE at io.com>

So I'm re-reading Robert Borski on _Peace_, and it's quite clever.

But something else occurs to me.

The characters have, indeed, obvious color associations.  And, well,  
there are clearly some murders in _Peace_.

And that got me thinking about Mrs. Peacock, and Mr. Green, and Mrs.  
White, and Professor Plum, and a nefarious House littered about with  
implements of murder.

I wonder if, just as there's a reading of _Through The Looking Glass  
and what Alice Found There_ as a chess game, there's a reading of  
_Peace_ as a game of _Clue_ (_Cluedo_ to you Brits).  Has anyone  
already traversed this particular path?

Adam
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