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I've re-read through the end of Brief Lives. Still good! Uh, spoilers.
Dream and Hob meet in the same place, which keeps being a place you can meet, but it doesn't stay the same -- the 1989 architecture is way open and 'modern', it's not some 600 year old pub. I guess it had already been changing, like in 1689 when it was a fancy club.
I've wondered whether it keeps being a suitable meeting place because Dream actually bought the place -- there's mention of mortal properties in The Kindly Ones -- or whether the universe just arranges it to be suitable for the wishes of an Endless.
Game of You: the place of the Hierogram says 'Dreaming' in katakana. I was not able to know that on previous readings.
Brief Lives: Nuala says Dream's ex was "very kind to me". A side of Thessaly I wouldn't have minded seeing on page.
Bast complains about Destruction's companion savaging a cat 60 years before. Possibly that was some other dog, possibly Barnabas the Talking Dog Who Eats Chocolate is 60+ years old.
Still tickled by the whole thing of going to Orpheus for an in-family oracle to find Destruction, who turns out to be one island over.
Endless lore: we're told no oracle can tell of the Endless against their will. Death told Destruction everyone knows everything but we just don't tell ourselves. I share Dream and Destruction's skepticism, but I've long thought that is true of Death herself.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for Destruction because the others wouldn't try his food, and thinking that they were probably acting in self-defense because that food probably was not very good.
I don't remember if I'd noticed that Thessaly's affair was foreshadowed near the end of Game of You: she's grumbling like "who does he think he is, he's not even attractive", clearly has him on her mind.
Still amused by the contrast: normal gods, need worshippers, Bast and Ishtar run on fumes (like Ishtar working in a strip club.) Triple goddess, faced with their last 'worshipper', seriously pissed that she's still alive. But, I think the triple is something of their own metaphysically, more alike to the Endless than to the gods shaped out of the Dreaming by worship.
Dream and Hob meet in the same place, which keeps being a place you can meet, but it doesn't stay the same -- the 1989 architecture is way open and 'modern', it's not some 600 year old pub. I guess it had already been changing, like in 1689 when it was a fancy club.
I've wondered whether it keeps being a suitable meeting place because Dream actually bought the place -- there's mention of mortal properties in The Kindly Ones -- or whether the universe just arranges it to be suitable for the wishes of an Endless.
Game of You: the place of the Hierogram says 'Dreaming' in katakana. I was not able to know that on previous readings.
Brief Lives: Nuala says Dream's ex was "very kind to me". A side of Thessaly I wouldn't have minded seeing on page.
Bast complains about Destruction's companion savaging a cat 60 years before. Possibly that was some other dog, possibly Barnabas the Talking Dog Who Eats Chocolate is 60+ years old.
Still tickled by the whole thing of going to Orpheus for an in-family oracle to find Destruction, who turns out to be one island over.
Endless lore: we're told no oracle can tell of the Endless against their will. Death told Destruction everyone knows everything but we just don't tell ourselves. I share Dream and Destruction's skepticism, but I've long thought that is true of Death herself.
I'm torn between feeling sorry for Destruction because the others wouldn't try his food, and thinking that they were probably acting in self-defense because that food probably was not very good.
I don't remember if I'd noticed that Thessaly's affair was foreshadowed near the end of Game of You: she's grumbling like "who does he think he is, he's not even attractive", clearly has him on her mind.
Still amused by the contrast: normal gods, need worshippers, Bast and Ishtar run on fumes (like Ishtar working in a strip club.) Triple goddess, faced with their last 'worshipper', seriously pissed that she's still alive. But, I think the triple is something of their own metaphysically, more alike to the Endless than to the gods shaped out of the Dreaming by worship.