At 12:19 AM 5/1/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>>Notes
>>-Durga is the larger of two moons. pg. 43
>>
>Two? Does "larger" instead of "largest" imply that there are
>only two?
In my mind it does. I would not write that sentence if there were three
moons.
>BTW, what does it mean by "Durga [was] laying
>wan glimmers across the etc"? I am very interested in
>computing the orbits of fictional moons O:-)
wan = pale
glimmer = moonbeam
Sorry, not much there.
>>-Wearing a "red bandanna" is a symbol of piracy. pg. 53
>>
>What's a "bandanna"?
I might suggest that you adopt my habit of keeping "dictionary.com" handy
while reading this book. There were many words that I looked up. Would
there be interest in me posting definitions of the words I had to look up?
>>Do "stallions" on pg. 45 refer to two men?
>>
>I see no reason why.
Good point....... I didn't piece it all together the first time.
>Some things I noticed:
>
>p.47: "The moons' pull had modest effect on the huge seas of Stratos.
>Still, tradition favored setting sail with Durga tide. After last night's
>excitement, the predawn departure was less poignant than Maia
>had expected. (...)"
>
>By "modest" I suspect that this is a comparison with _Earth_, or
>maybe with suntide. Comparing with Earth would be more or less
>out of character, as everything until now has been presented as
>Maia's point of view.
Maia does seem to have quite a bit of knowledge about Earth - so it is not
entirely out of character.
More importantly, this book isn't so much told from Maia's viewpoint as it
is told from what I think English Majors would call "First Person
Omniscient" viewpoint. The narrator tells the story from Maia's eyes (as
opposed to "3rd Person Omniscient"), but is clearly an omniscient narrotor
(and *not* Maia) all the same.
JDG
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