TSH: Doris and Lupine

Roy C. Lackey · 16 Apr 2010, 17:59 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:59:16 -0500
Subject: (urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine
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James Wynn quoted and wrote:
> A werewolf is defined in the book as a human who takes on the shape of a
> wolf. I wasn't aware that a werewolf could take on the guise of another
> human. (Nevermind being in two places at the same time.) What, if
anything,
> does this episode say about Doris and Lupine? How did Lupine get Doris's
> keys?

{Hmmm...Why do you assume a bad smell means a werewolf? I thought it
was vampires that had a bad smell.}

Just before Martha's neighbor, Star Paxton, was killed by a werewolf, Bax
heard an animal, went outside the house and noticed "an odor--a faint, musty
stench." (p-82)

After Doris complained of the odor in her car, Bax wrote, "I sniffed. If I
had used my nose earlier, I would not have been deceived." (p-133) Doris
asked how he came to have her keys. He said, "A girl I met down at the
river's edge gave them to me." He went on to say, "She brought the smell
that you complained about." (ibid.)

There is no doubt about it. According to Bax, Lupine took on the semblance
of Doris and left behind a funky smell. Lupine also banished the apparition
of the big man Bax had seen in the woods (p-134). The big man, we are told,
looked like Ted (ibid.).

{ But I never associated the false
Doris with Nicholas until now. Incidentally, I kinda think Mary King's
ghost might be Lupine's soul.}

I don't know about that, but Bax was asking Shell about Mary King (p-157)
before he picked her up (p-200). That ain't right.

-Roy

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