On Mon, 14 May 2001, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> JDG wrote:
> >
> >What's more, the wreckage
> >of The Zeus is floating nearby - and Leie is presumed dead.
> >
> Did you believe Leie was *really* dead? :-)
Did Maia? :)
Actually, on first reading, I got "into" Maia (or into her head, I guess)
enough that I *did* believe Leie was really dead.
> >Does anyone want to comment on the final paragraph of this chapter? I've
> >read it several times, but the sheer number of reflexive clauses keeps
> >leaving me in knots. Translating the last sentence in particular leaves
> >me with: "Maia would call the faint sense of loss 'childhood.' " But that
> >doesn't really seem to make sense.
> >
> I think the meaning is: childhood = the period of Maia's life when everything
> she did had to be shared with Leie.
What she *lost* was childhood. That's the reading that makes sense to me,
anyway. Literally parsing the sentence it doesn't quite make sense, but I
understood what was meant, or at least I thought I did, to the point where
it didn't bother me as badly as it's bothering John.
> My notes, in a somehow disorganized order:
>
> p.104: two weeks after storm they arrive at Grange Head.
> There's a dawn sighting of the 5-pulser in "th' Plough".
> It's the new satellite put by the Outsider "this summer"
>
> - What is the Plough? There's a Plough constellation in Earth's sky,
> could it be the same? If so, Stratos must be very close to Earth, so that
> some stars are in common.
> [When we finish this book analysis, I plan not only having a Timeline,
> but also having a stellar map of Stratos *and* the location of
> Stratos relative to the Sun :-)))))))))))))]
Well, there could be a constellation that, seen from Stratos, looks like a
Plough, having no relation to our Plough constellation. (Just to play
Devil's Advocate....)
Julia
