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TDTCB, Ch. 2
What Came Before:
--- Quote from: lockesnow ---started reading chapter three but there is no new topic...
all sorts of interesting little metaphysical stuff. Hinges of the world. A description of the onta (which seems to match what Inrau saw in the sun that matched what Celmo saw in the sun), and just tons of red meat for sologdin's binary of the past and present and how it collapses. Hints of Esemenet's significance and importance. The insistence on formal titles for Esmi, harlot specifically, prostitute generally, the term whore is not used in reference to the first literal one, much to the dismay of all the readers who want to catch Bakker in a some sort of pointless game of misogyny gotcha.
heh, reading the entry to Esmenet, I kept thinking of two movie titles I know of (but have not see), Beware the Holy Whore and The Mother and the Whore.
We get our next taste of onscreen magic with how DA summons Inrau. And we get a hint that Sarcellus is more than he seems (and perhaps has some connection to the thing that took Geshrunni's face when Sarcellus declares how he's 'longed' to hit DA for so long.
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What Came Before:
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--- Quote from: lockesnow ---started reading chapter three but there is no new topic...
much to the dismay of all the readers who want to catch Bakker in a some sort of pointless game of misogyny gotcha.
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thing that took Geshrunni's face when Sarcellus declares how he's 'longed' to hit DA for so long.
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Had to laugh at the first quote there. Glad it hasnt started here, reading Bakker's TPB blog got so tiresome for a while.
And good catch on the second one. Something I've not caught in previous reads. 'Hit' seems oddly specific.
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What Came Before:
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--- Quote from: lockesnow ---started reading chapter three but there is no new topic...
We get our next taste of onscreen magic with how DA summons Inrau.
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So is that what that is? I’ve been scratching my bark over that paragraph for years now. For a long time I assumed it was a cant of compulsion, but Akka later insists (to himself) that no such cant was used.
If you have a good explanation of whatever magic is going on (and why), please elaborate.
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What Came Before:
--- Quote from: lockesnow ---I don't. Akka is a liar. Otoh, he says if he uses a cant it will taint Inrau and he will be discovered, so it must be something else.
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