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morriswalters:
--- Quote from: forumghost on February 18, 2020, 10:38:37 PM ---Y'know I really don't get where the 'using her sons to fuel it' stuff is coming from with regards to her death curse. Wasn't it fueled by her lifeforce (like any death curse) and just tied to her bloodline so that the Curse stayed 'refreshed' instead of fading like a normal spell?
It's not like it hurt Harry, or Thomas, in any way, near as I can tell. Just that the presence of Maggie's descendants kept the spell anchored/strong.
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Well it got Thomas tied to a rock as a tidbit for He Who Walks Behind, Murphy attacked and Harry almost murdered as well. But all's well that ends well, I guess. Look, Jim wrote it that way. I'm just pointing out the notes in the score that he's written. What I'm interested is in where the music takes us. In Skin Game Jim told us that Maggie was a piece of work. And he used the scion of a true nightmare to tell us. He's playing with our expectations. And now comes the Journal. I'm hoping in Pace Talks to get some clarity.
@Mira
You may be right. We'll see.
Bad Alias:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on February 18, 2020, 09:11:22 PM ---Be careful of comparing Margaret to protesters.
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That's why I agreed with the statement. "Normal" kids ended robbing banks for the Symbionese Liberation Army. Or maybe how today "normal" kids went to Syria to join ISIS.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on February 19, 2020, 02:50:58 AM ---That's why I agreed with the statement. "Normal" kids ended robbing banks for the Symbionese Liberation Army. Or maybe how today "normal" kids went to Syria to join ISIS.
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Yes, we can never forget that these people are skilled as well as evil and we can all be susceptible
when caught off guard or in a vulnerable moment. People join cults all of the time, people get scammed all of them time. Margaret was young and idealistic, she was also angry because her father made some serious mistakes during her training. The experience with her father made her a bit resentful, put a bit of a chip on her shoulder and last but not least mistrustful of authority, in short not hard to recruit for the dark forces. Let's not forget that Eb knows he screwed up with her and was determined not to make the same mistakes with Harry.
exartiem:
Two points:
First, we should be careful about how deep we get into religious doctrine because this story is coming from Jim's mind. It doesn't necessarily have to jive with his own beliefs. He has said in interviews that he was raised fundamentalist Christian, but more from the "fun" end of fundamental rather than the "mental" end.
Second, as to whether we should care about Margaret, you guys seem to be treating this topic as it's own story. This is Harry's story. Harry cares about his mother, all the good and bad. If you care about Harry then you should care about what affects him.
Of course, if you don't care about Harry, then why are you reading his story?
Dina:
Perhaps the story is interesting enough to be read without actually caring for the lead character.
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