peacock murderer clues and two random bits.

maa32 · 28 Oct 2002, 14:44 · from urth-v0210.mbox · original

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: (urth) peacock murderer clues and two random bits.
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:44:01 -0700
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I am a bit surprised that no one mentions the most obvious hint that Peacoc=
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is going to kill Olivia.  We know that most of the names of the text (gold,=20
black, "olive-ia", peacock blue, etc.) are associated with colors.  When=20
colors appear, they are associated with these characters.  Read the section=20
where Olivia and Peacock and Den are in the cave with the skull - Olivia=20
places great importance on wrapping the remains of their dinner in blue rib=
bon=20
and says that Weer will remember it later when it is important, and it will=20
make sense.  This is her transtemporal way of saying that the seal on her o=
wn=20
casket will be enacted by the man associated with blue - Prof. Peacock.  Th=
e=20
death imagery in the whole cave scene is overwhelming, and Olivia even talk=
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about killing Peacock as they descend, if I'm not mistaken. Throughout the=20
text color really does invoke a particular character.  Also, in the embedde=
d=20
tales, anything with the initials S.B. invokes the banker and reveals a bit=20
more about his situation.

Two more things - I got a letter the other day from Mr. Wolfe, and it was=20
written on a manuscript page from In Green's Jungles.  I wasn't sure if it =
was=20
a mistake or not, or what stage of revision it was from.  If it was textual=
ly=20
different from the published version I was going to post it in it's entiret=
y -=20
alas, after finding the portion in the published book that corresponded wit=
h=20
the pages.  The only change was one adjective - in the manuscript "a boar"=20
became "a MATURE boar" in the published version. Shoot.

Finally, found a good quote in In Green's Jungles.  It is in the first=20
chapter- I don't have the text directly in front of me, but since I'm typin=
g I=20
might as well put it down and then repost it later.  It is two paragraphs t=
hat=20
says (in paraphrase which I will repost tonight exactly with page number)=20
"Green was a whorl made for trees. Indeed, green was a whorl made by trees =
...=20
the only problem that the trees hadn't solved was that of the lianas." =20
Remember that the only problem on green is that of the inhumi - and I insis=
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that the liana are the inhumi and the trees are sentient.  (However, I woul=
d=20
argue that the trees were made for Green) I will quote more later - but I g=
rew=20
weary of reiterating the same thing about these trees.
Have a good day.
Marc Aramini

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