TSH: Doris and Lupine

James Wynn · 16 Apr 2010, 18:51 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:51:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) TSH: Doris and Lupine
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>>Doesn't this work better if Doris body goes off and changes into
>>Lupine, while it is her soul (Mary King) who holds Bax's hand?
>>

> hat's almost as plausible, except that when the hand-holder vanished
>"something raced away, too big and too dark, too near the ground" (p. 129).
>That would seem to be Lupine in wolf form. If the hand-holder was just a
>soul it seems like she would simply vanish without any extra special
>effects, as the passenger did in the car.

Hmm..good point. But I just don't see how we get Doris around to being
Lupine. Granted, Lupine impersonating Doris twice is significant of
something. But in each case, we have Doris Here and Lupine There (or
the other way around).

And Doris seems entirely corporeal. She has a job. She eats. She has
sex. Was apparently married. Not typical behavior of a disembodied
soul.

Finally, I just can't get around the fact that Doris seems
consistently completely clueless about Faeri. For example, why would
she just hand over Ted's ring if she had any idea how powerful it was.
Maybe AFTER she had bedded Bax (maaaaybe), but not before.

J.

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