[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update

[paal at gis.net]

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> On 11/07/07, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> >    It may have acquired a subtitle other than /Grace River. / A fan
> > somewhere on the book tour -- I think it was in a hurried hall
> > conversation during my one day at Westercon, unless it was a hurried
> > hall conversation last weekend at ConVergence -- suggested /Passage/
> > , which my editor quite likes, too.  It rather fits in with the
> > one-word progression of the prior ones -- /Beguilement, Legacy,
> > Passage/...  What d'you all think?  /The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3:
> Passage./

For me it feels OK, not great, not bad... "passage" to me connotes a
relatively narrow path, such as e.g. the long-sought-for "Northwest
Passage" or, for that matter, denoting going through a "pass" where a
pass is e.g. Independence Pass [SCARY place, that!)for one of the more
extreme cases where the pass to this day can be hazardous to pass
through--the area on the sides of the pass are not generally
passable--steep mountainside up and down, and the pass the area that one
can get =through- the mountain using. 

To me, passage denotes in effect a funneling situation of going through
something and experiencing something, rather than going about a
landscape with a lot of open territory that doesn't -force- one to a
particular path or set of specific alternative paths, pick one and
you're stuck on that path until you're on the other side of the
mountains... I prefer e.g. "journey" to "passage" if one is dealing with
terrain where one isn't being constrained to a physical path with
obstacles that keep on on the path.

> I like. It lends itself to titles for #4 like "Fulfilment" or
> "Destiny".
> 
> No need to discard the over-arching title of "The Wide Green World".
> That can apply to the series as a whole...

I still majorly dislike "The Wide Green World."  One of the contributing
factors, look up "green" in the Dictionary of Slang, it has a LOT of
sordid sexual situation connotations! 

> You are **going** to write more, right? <vbeg,d,r>