Gilling's killer

Andrew Bollen · 04 Jan 2005, 06:30 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: abollen at internode.on.net (Andrew Bollen)
Date: Tue Jan  4 06:30:35 2005
Subject: (urth) Gilling's killer
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Mr Lebling says:

> Isn't there also a segment in _The Knight_ where Gerda (not sure if it was
> her) describes having borne multiple children to the giant on whose farm 
> she
> was a slave? She comments that after the first birth they could have 
> normal
> sex together, implying a vaginal birth rather than a c-section. I don't
> believe her owner was one of the Mice, but an actual giant.
>
> This story seems to contradict the others.
>
> -- Dave, aka Vizcacha

I'm really not sure why ummm the witch-ghost put on her repulsive little 
giant-human sex show for Toug. What gives with that? The only reason I can 
see for her doing it is to (unsuccessfully) attempt to induce Toug to kill 
Gilling, but why does she want to do that? She has some kind of agenda 
amongst the giants, perhaps just in aid of Idnn (who is nice to her cat) 
and/or Able (who was nice to her bones) - but it's totally unclear to me 
what's going on. And why does Beel think that Toug did try to kill Gilling?

There may be some kind of Wolfean hidden story in the long 
Toug-amongst-the-Giants part of the book.

But back to the witch-ghost's nasty little vision of giant-human conubials: 
it could well be completely false, and designed just to incite and/or 
disgust Toug. As somebody else mentioned, if that's the way giants and 
humans really do it, there doesn't seem to  be any reason why pregnancy 
should have to ensue, if the woman doesn't want it.

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