Sorcerer's House--First Read--Some Thoughts/Questions

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:01:34 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) Sorcerer's House--First Read--Some Thoughts/Questions
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Pure silver can be melted and cast or even thrown from a shot tower, if
you have enough of it.

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> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:43 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>The note with the pistols was not meant for Bax but for
>>>Trelawney.Trelawney's questions were _not_ intended to prove that Bax
>>>was not some other Baxter Dunn but to verify that he was not George
>>>(impersonating Bax) who would become the werewolf (or was already).
>>
>> After considering this a bit, I think George must have known about
>> their father before he left for Medicine Man. He comes into the
>> reading of the will accusing Bax of attempting to cheat him. He think
>> the House is to be left to *him*. (Why?)
>
> Debts. Either because Bax stole the legacy from George by the trick
> (and if we're going to make Jacob & Esau comparisons, though they
> weren't twins, Bax would be the scheming Jacob), or for the frauds
> perpetuated on him and his friends. Bax says that as far as he is
> concerned, George chose to be repaid by prison time. This strongly
> implies to me that there is still a debt outstanding. ('He says I
> still owe him X millions, but as far as *I'm* concerned, it's been
> paid in full.')
>
> A large mansion with high property taxes (implying high assessment &
> value) would serve nicely as a down payment.
>
> (Remember also how Bax couches the first requests for money.)
>
>> If George is already a
>> werewolf, then ihe s probably well aware of Faeri. Since he already
>> knows about their father, naturally he assumes that the House is to be
>> left to him as well. And because Trelawney knew George was a werewolf,
>> he held him off with the dueling pistol. George might well have known
>> that that type of gun was the type most credibl to have silver
>> bullets.
>
> Eh? So antique gun = silver bullets? If anything, I'd think it'd be
> easier to use silver bullets with modern guns - one hears about
> poisoned bullets where the tip is drilled into, or coated. One doesn't
> hear so much about silver shot which has to be turned on a jeweler's
> lath at great cost, I think Doris describes it as.
>
>> Is there reason to believe that Bax was the *younger* twin? If George
>> is a werewolf, there is certainly a Jacob/(hairy) Esau thing going on
>> here. As you know, Jacob not only cheated Esau out of his elder-son
>> blessing, but he earlier sold Esau a pot of beans for his birthright
>> -- an act in which Esau was hardly innocent, just as Bax implies was
>> the case with George. Yet, I can't think of a scenario in which Bax
>> changed the will and the instructions, or impersonates George.
>
> We could look at the legacy; which one got their undergraduate first?
> I don't have my copy here, but I *think* Bax graduated first.
>
> --
> gwern
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