My sympathy, Greybeard. I am on Dreamwidth because something else pushed me there, but I get tired of getting new passes too.
Tarot Deck numbers: It won't match, because there are 22 major arcana in the deck, and XXX: The Whirlwind won't fit in our world. One more way Europa differs, just as the Muses aren't our Muses.
RE: editors. Their publisher is not giving them a proper edit, appears to have pushed them to get a new book out fast, and the cloud editing they'd hoped for that would have brought this book out better than the first didn't happen. They are apparently aware of the problem and fighting their publishers to try to develop a solution that doesn't bend the publisher out of shape but gets the editing done. It has been suggested that a polite letter to the publishers suggesting that editing would help a lot might be in order. This by way of having suggested somewhat more forcefully to the authors that really, they need to do something about this. Which they do.
Lu's thoughts, added to the far more clear version of her response to Tarvek's pondering on leaving his home, PLUS more clarification about her "new body" and her self-admiration, goes a lot way to tell us just how not-human she's been, and for a long time. Like probably most of Agatha's life, I would guess. I think Agatha's comment that her thoughts are not just mad, but alien compounds that. (grin) Feeling vindicated again: My own hypothesis that Lu-as-we-know-her is an amalgam with something else, and that whatever she was before she begame the Other, she changed in the transition, seems more and more likely to be correct.
The Muses are indeed more awesome...and it worries me that they may have been yanking Tarvek's chain when he sought advice from them. I'm also interested in the backstory on Van Rijn, who would not allow himself to be painted.
I can't say I'm surprised at the new angle on Euphro and Andronicus, but, then, I always assumed that the version we got had been heavily "Opera-ated" on. To me it always did seem more opera fantasy than history, and I expected the "real story" to differ. If nothing else it's too much in the Foglio's meta-theme for the opera to be taken at face value.
I am glad, yes, that Klaus does continue to seem to recall Zanta fondly. And, yes, a more expanded Zeetha.
And it's good to see you here, friend, even if it did make you get another dratted password.
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Re: First Impressions
Date: 2012-04-29 11:21 pm (UTC)Tarot Deck numbers: It won't match, because there are 22 major arcana in the deck, and XXX: The Whirlwind won't fit in our world. One more way Europa differs, just as the Muses aren't our Muses.
RE: editors. Their publisher is not giving them a proper edit, appears to have pushed them to get a new book out fast, and the cloud editing they'd hoped for that would have brought this book out better than the first didn't happen. They are apparently aware of the problem and fighting their publishers to try to develop a solution that doesn't bend the publisher out of shape but gets the editing done. It has been suggested that a polite letter to the publishers suggesting that editing would help a lot might be in order. This by way of having suggested somewhat more forcefully to the authors that really, they need to do something about this. Which they do.
Lu's thoughts, added to the far more clear version of her response to Tarvek's pondering on leaving his home, PLUS more clarification about her "new body" and her self-admiration, goes a lot way to tell us just how not-human she's been, and for a long time. Like probably most of Agatha's life, I would guess. I think Agatha's comment that her thoughts are not just mad, but alien compounds that. (grin) Feeling vindicated again: My own hypothesis that Lu-as-we-know-her is an amalgam with something else, and that whatever she was before she begame the Other, she changed in the transition, seems more and more likely to be correct.
The Muses are indeed more awesome...and it worries me that they may have been yanking Tarvek's chain when he sought advice from them. I'm also interested in the backstory on Van Rijn, who would not allow himself to be painted.
I can't say I'm surprised at the new angle on Euphro and Andronicus, but, then, I always assumed that the version we got had been heavily "Opera-ated" on. To me it always did seem more opera fantasy than history, and I expected the "real story" to differ. If nothing else it's too much in the Foglio's meta-theme for the opera to be taken at face value.
I am glad, yes, that Klaus does continue to seem to recall Zanta fondly. And, yes, a more expanded Zeetha.
And it's good to see you here, friend, even if it did make you get another dratted password.