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

[Dorian E. Gray]

Paal said...
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> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>> 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./
>
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> 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.

To me, "passage" mostly resonates along "rite of passage" or "passing from 
one life-stage to another" lines.  So if that suits what's going to be in 
book 3, I think it would work very well.

(Caveat: I have only so far read "Beguilement"; from that I can envisage 
some kind of "passage" in the above sense coming up for Dag and Fawn, but 
for all I know, that might happen in "Legacy".)

Until the sky falls on our heads...

Dorian.
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