tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post1040820640783952555..comments2024-02-25T01:48:45.848-07:00Comments on Mr. Center's Wall: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana XIII -- chapter 12: BOTH THE TIME and THE PLOT POINTS, THEY "SI GIRANO"Joseph Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00090686611405364311noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-15835300269033263212011-03-28T17:22:26.983-06:002011-03-28T17:22:26.983-06:006. Yeah, I think that you're right on with the...6. Yeah, I think that you're right on with the young/old Yambo comparison.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708022607046379611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-63695927128327750752011-03-28T16:49:51.640-06:002011-03-28T16:49:51.640-06:001. I think that's part of it. I think it wil...1. I think that's part of it. I think it will make more sense when we fall through the clouds over the gorge and into the whatever down there.<br />4. Probably an even more unfair question than the first, especially since I can't remember how the folio fully fits in with the end result. I think it's important that it's a book (if this is really Clarabell's treasure) because, well, he's into books, but more so because this is a rare, valuable, and difficult (maybe even inexistent) to find book. And why the folio instead of the Gutenberg Bible? Maybe because the GB is too unlikely??<br />6. I don't know, either, except that the bottle in Wonderland both assists and foils Alice's progress. As far as the tone surrounding the brutal vengeance, I think its rhetoric is more due to how Yambo viewed it as a child. I expect that old Yambo doesn't really feel that way, but it was the mood of the past pressing through the fog, not to mention the potentially reverent tone Amalia would have narrated the tale with.Joseph Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00090686611405364311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-395948500312534280.post-84062851888155587052011-03-28T16:37:18.545-06:002011-03-28T16:37:18.545-06:001. Maybe it pertains to the arbitrariness of what ...1. Maybe it pertains to the arbitrariness of what we remember versus what we don't?<br />2. I think that part of this is to show how local superstitions also influence culture, in addition to all the stuff that Yambo reads. <br />4. Any ideas? Sorry, I'm just stumped.<br />6. I don't know. The story's incredibly brutal. I'm just surprised at the way Eco presents it. It's as though we're to applaud the father for the vengeance.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708022607046379611noreply@blogger.com