COL49 - Chap 1: Roseman

Tore Rye Andersen torerye at hotmail.com
Thu May 7 06:56:28 CDT 2009


Monte:
 
> Later we'll be hearing about "the entropies of lovable but scatterbrained
> Mother Nature" (GR 324) -- which I've never thought was exclusively
> Weissman's voice. And about a child in Bad Karma's mud who "came up out of
> the black radiance of herself to find her again, Shekhinah, bride, queen,
> daughter. And mother. Motherly as sheltering mud and glowing pitchblende—”
> (479)

Don't forget Naughty Nalline (aka Mom Slothrop) (GR 682), or the Mother 
Conspiracy (GR 505).
 
> Sure Dad's a Problem, but Mom's shelter is ambiguous at best.
 
And sometimes Mom isn't even there to shelter us, but has absquatulated, 
like Frenesi in VL or Erlys in AtD (where Dad - and not even biological 
Dad - has to take care of things).
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