Marcone - Lochlyn Munro



He'd need contacts to make his eyes pale green, but that'd be true of nearly any actor since that's a very rare eye colour.

I stand corrected.  I think I can be forgiven.  They do look alike.  I looked them both up. 

Tim Curry could do Marcone then.  He can do creepy.

What? No, completely wrong look.  Marcone is supposed to look like a football coach.
You might want to see more recent pictures of Mr. Curry, such as images 8 and 9 on his IMDB page.

I think Brimley is too grumpy grandpa for Eb.
Eb is older but I suspect you don't think of him as a curmudgeon but rather as someone older who's still dangerous.

I imagine this guy As Ebenezar, though he isn't exactly an actor.

I recently learned of the doctrine of the "wandering Jew", and came here to see what theories people may have connected to it.  I was surprised to find only two, but perhaps it's just that obscure.  

I'm not a religious person myself, and despite having read the bible, the attempted indoctrination of my childhood was not catholic, so I'd never heard of this odd bit of doctrine that states some random guy wandering by as Jesus spoke "verily I say unto you, there be some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the son of man coming in his kingdom."(Matthew 16:28, echoed by Mark and Luke) has wandered the world ever since, unable to die.  While it seems plain to me that the line was given to inspire those listening (probably to revolution), the wandering Jew character had to be invented to preserve the idea of taking the bible as literal truth, especially in the case of Jesus-quotes.  

In the Dresdenverse, the "White God" may or may not be truly omnipotent, but the extension of life by supernatural means is possible enough, so it seems that such a figure would literally exist there, as improbable as he is for the real world.  He would be as vanilla as a mortal, apart from the inability to die, no matter how long he is around or what happens to him.  He could be, and likely has been at times, severely incapacitated, but given a world full of magic, even the most crippling injuries could be healed if the patient simply cannot die.  He'd also have a couple thousand years of knowledge.  

Mac, Kincaid, an as-yet unknown?

Nevermind.

This is what Harry likes to think; it may well serve Lash for him to be mistaken here.

...and maybe the entire series is the schizophrenic fantasy of an institutional patient.
Whatever, I'm done. 

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New question for Jim:
Did Harry name his foundling kitten after Mister Mistoffeles from the play Cats?
After all, that Mister has a magic/stage illusion theme...

Well every equinox comes after a solstice, which came after an equinox, which came after a solstice... and that's just a year's worth. Good thing he doesn't live on Discworld with 8 seasons to keep track of!

The line was an internal thought, if i recall. The books represent his case files, written up at some unspecified point after each case was closed (much later in the case of Changes, granted). Billy refers to the case files in the DFRPG, and he has all the information in the books up to Small Favor*. So his mental state at the time it was happening shouldn't mess up his vocabulary years later. I mean, if he had permanent psychological our neurological damage at the time of the case file's writeup, he'd have those aphasic mistakes during the whole book.

I noticed that too, Cass, but I figure that either Jim used the wrong word or the editor changed it to the wrong word. Midsummer/Litha and Midwinter/Yule are indeed solstices. Since so much of Summer Knight is based on that timing, as opposed to the smaller part it plays in Changes, I'll take SK as the dominant reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_year


I think modern Druids tend to focus on the solstice & equinox days (using the "Alban-" names), but since in-between times are supposed to be more significant to witches, Wicca considers the halfway points between a solstice and equinox to be it's greater holidays. Since many Celtic groups considered a new day to begin just after sunset, celebrations for Samhain would have begun on the night of the day before (10/31) according to our current calendar that starts the new day at midnight. Thus, if Harry was born after sundown, he's a Samhain baby.