Kiki

David Stockhoff · 19 Apr 2010, 15:27 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:27:21 -0400
Subject: (urth) Kiki
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And there's also the eery significance of carts in /*Le Morte d'Arthur*/ and elsewhere: The condemned were carried in carts to the gallows, but goddesses were also carried in carts in procession long before that. 

So a witch's or fairy's riding "twice in a cart" could mean something very precise, but I couldn't guess what.

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:42:30 -0600
From: Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com>
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Subject: Re: (urth) Kiki
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Craig Brewer

> > And who is Kiki, really?
> >   
>   
The name "Kiki" might be an homage to "Kiki's Delivery Service," a 
Japanese anime by Miyazaki. That would indicate that Kiki is a witch. 
She demonstrates supernatural insight when she tells Bax and Doris that 
there is a third person in the car, "settin' in the dark." This must be 
Nicholas in the trunk.

"Twice in a cart's all I ever rode," suggests she is not of the modern 
world. She must be of Faerie.




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