Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I took it to be a joking reference to Harry Potter.  Not wanting to talk about the all-time bestselling fiction author, Rowling.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 6, 2006 5:19 PM
>To: robinlandseadel at comcast.net, anville.azote at gmail.com
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>Subject: Re: Atd : page 542---starts on page 524.Big Ass Spoiler
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>> > Oh, maybe a bit of "ritual reluctance", just to give a hint of people
>> > "so obviously in on something". . . .  ;-)
>> >
>> > -A. A.
>>
>>
>>Right you are, A.A., just check out page 78.
>>
>>Thank you,
>>Robin
>
>The passage on page 78 you refer to might just as easily be seen as a spin 
>on GR's theme of naming/the act of naming. Sure, the characters on page 78 
>are reluctant to speak out loud, to name the Anti-Stone, but the words 
>'ritual reluctance' are never actually deployed, are they? Merle's 
>reluctance makes perfect sense in the alchemical context of this passage, 
>and doesn't necessarily point to the ritual reluctance in Lot 49, which had 
>other motives (a mortal fear of blackclad assassins, as opposed to a bit of 
>alchemical superstition).
>
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