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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 07:44:01 -0700 From: maa32Subject: (urth) peacock murderer clues and two random bits. I am a bit surprised that no one mentions the most obvious hint that Peacock is going to kill Olivia. We know that most of the names of the text (gold, black, "olive-ia", peacock blue, etc.) are associated with colors. When colors appear, they are associated with these characters. Read the section where Olivia and Peacock and Den are in the cave with the skull - Olivia places great importance on wrapping the remains of their dinner in blue ribbon and says that Weer will remember it later when it is important, and it will make sense. This is her transtemporal way of saying that the seal on her own casket will be enacted by the man associated with blue - Prof. Peacock. The death imagery in the whole cave scene is overwhelming, and Olivia even talks about killing Peacock as they descend, if I'm not mistaken. Throughout the text color really does invoke a particular character. Also, in the embedded tales, anything with the initials S.B. invokes the banker and reveals a bit more about his situation. Two more things - I got a letter the other day from Mr. Wolfe, and it was written on a manuscript page from In Green's Jungles. I wasn't sure if it was a mistake or not, or what stage of revision it was from. If it was textually different from the published version I was going to post it in it's entirety - alas, after finding the portion in the published book that corresponded with the pages. The only change was one adjective - in the manuscript "a boar" became "a MATURE boar" in the published version. Shoot. Finally, found a good quote in In Green's Jungles. It is in the first chapter- I don't have the text directly in front of me, but since I'm typing I might as well put it down and then repost it later. It is two paragraphs that says (in paraphrase which I will repost tonight exactly with page number) "Green was a whorl made for trees. Indeed, green was a whorl made by trees ... the only problem that the trees hadn't solved was that of the lianas." Remember that the only problem on green is that of the inhumi - and I insist that the liana are the inhumi and the trees are sentient. (However, I would argue that the trees were made for Green) I will quote more later - but I grew weary of reiterating the same thing about these trees. Have a good day. Marc Aramini --