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Dina:
It confused me a little too, until I deduced the meaning. I don't think I have ever read "belike" before.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on January 22, 2020, 08:53:05 PM ---It confused me a little too, until I deduced the meaning. I don't think I have ever read "belike" before.
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Yeah, he wasn't naming anyone, Jim does use some older terms. I am reading " Book of Lost Tales I" by J.R.R. Tolkien, in the back his son Christopher included a list of arcane terms that his father used.. What caught my eye was the word, "fey" was on the list. I don't know how many of you remember but that is one of the words Jim used to describe one of the possible futures for Molly during her soul gaze with Harry back in Proven Guilty, a lot of us racked our brains over it... This is what caught my eye;
Fey The old senses were 'fated, approaching death; presaging death'. It seems unlikely that the later sense 'possessing or displaying magical, fairy-like, or unearthly qualities' (O.E.D. Supplement) was intended. '
Not the first part, but the the fairy-like, magical, and unearthly qualities would describe the future
Winter Lady as seen by Harry in his soul gaze with Molly. Sorry for straying off topic a bit, but that really struck me when I read it the other night.. So it isn't shocking that Jim would throw in another arcane term like belike..
Dina:
Well, it is not shocking because Eb is old, really old, so he sometimes speaks with arcane words. And about Fey I just thought Jim meant "fairy" and it fitted what happened later for Molly.
Bad Alias:
Madge was in Blood Rites.
--- Quote from: Sir Huron Stone on January 22, 2020, 09:55:22 AM ---If I remember correctly though, the ink was meant more for the Senior Council. ...
Most of them were anywhere from 16 to what, 25, maybe 30 for the oldest like Carlos?
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Peabody wanted Harry to sign a receipt for the investigation file, so I assume he was going to use the ink on Harry.
Carlos was 25 in White Night. Turn Coat is three years later. So Carlos would only be about 28.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on January 23, 2020, 12:23:41 AM --- Peabody wanted Harry to sign a receipt for the investigation file, so I assume he was going to use the ink on Harry.
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I'm pretty sure Peabody made several efforts to get Harry inked. IIRC the main reason Luccio got romantically involved was to give Peabody someone on Dresden's inner circle.
Come to think of it...
WARNING: new WAG upcoming (at least, one I haven't read before):
I suspect that Peabody was behind Harry's greycloak'ing in Dead Beat. I'm sure Luccio would've considered "drafting" such a brawny combat-wizard anyway (for all the good reasons they discussed, there in Mac's), but I bet Peabody nudged her decision: once Harry was an "official" of the Council, I bet Peabody would have expected he could get Harry inked in short order!
Then Luccio went and got a new body, un-ink'ed(!). But young, and horny, and malleable, and extra-susceptible to his ink ...
...
... and by then, Peabody realized that Harry Dresden loved to be annoying and obnoxious, and would be exceedingly-difficult to get ink'ed.
So Harry gets a hot Italian girlfriend, and Peabody gets a close-up view of Dresden.
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