Actually, I can understand where the kessle is coming from. Vassals in a monarchy are always somewhat nervous until the succession is secured.
Matchkessle, Matchkessle, make me a match.
-- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Bene Gesserit)
William George Ferguson <wmgfr...@newsguy.com> wrote:
>Actually, I can understand where the kessle is coming from. Vassals in a >monarchy are always somewhat nervous until the succession is secured.
So the vessels of the kessle will be nervous, so secure us?
>Matchkessle, Matchkessle, make me a match.
That works too I guess.
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On Aug 27, 10:43 am, Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> quoted, in part:
> An intended consort.
When I saw that in the post, I thought it was a typo, but I see it was on the page like that.
Presumably, this is an error, which the Foglios will correct to "An intended. A consort."
I also had to re-read the page to realize that Dagon Heterodyne was not the woman on the left-hand side of the panel, but rather the man on the right-hand side of the panel - whose interest had been piqued by the warrior homunculi sent by the Skull-Queen of Kraal, the woman on the left-hand side. So Dagon Heterodyne was not one of the few previous female Heterodyne heirs, having the Skull-Queen of Kraal as another of her titles.
Skull-Queen?
Could Agatha and Bangalesh Dupree actually be *relatives*?
Or, at least, could Bangalesh Dupree have inherited - or won - the mantle of one of Agatha's ancestors?
:: Presumably, this is an error, which the Foglios will correct to "An :: intended. A consort."
: Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> : I don't see what you mean. An intended consort is someone the ruling : queen intends to be her consort.
Yes, but the appeal of the "it was an error" theory is that all the other terms are single words, and "intended" is a synonym for "fiancee". It does read a bit better if the kessle was playing thesarus, yielding a list of single-word terms.
On the other hand, even if it's an error, it doesn't seem all that likely they'll fix it online. After all, they fixed the "fertility/love" thing in Zeetha's speech in the printed version, but never bothered to update the online version (if I'm remembering that thread rightly).
thro...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote: >:: Presumably, this is an error, which the Foglios will correct to "An >:: intended. A consort."
>: Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> >: I don't see what you mean. An intended consort is someone the ruling >: queen intends to be her consort.
>Yes, but the appeal of the "it was an error" theory is that all the >other terms are single words, and "intended" is a synonym for "fiancee". >It does read a bit better if the kessle was playing thesarus, yielding >a list of single-word terms.
But this is a very clever castle, that plays with subtle meanings. Why would it suddenly play one-word thesaurus?
: Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> : But this is a very clever castle, that plays with subtle meanings. Why : would it suddenly play one-word thesaurus?
Because it's funny? Plus, by that interpretation, it was important to say "intended consort" instead of "intended" or "consort" for reasons of suble nuances of meaning. Yet the other words in the list range in their interpretation all over the spectrum. from "fiancee" to "stud".
Plus too also, I get the impression, not of nuanced wordplay, but ham-handed slapstick, from this castle segment. And indeed, most castle segments we've encountered. True, backed up by playing semantic games, but not really subtle. Or, subtle only in the sense that a large stone falling on your head is subtle.
: thro...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) : Or, subtle only in the sense that a large stone : falling on your head is subtle.
Hm. Or possibly, as Conrad Nomikos said, "Greek subtlety" rather than "Chinese subtlety" (iirc... maybe he said "inscrutability", or "oriental"? Hm, don't have it to check). Ie, exemplified by the riddle of the Kalikanzaros, "feathers or lead?".
On Aug 27, 4:13 pm, Bengt Larsson <bengtl8....@telia.NOSPAMcom> wrote:
> I don't see what you mean. An intended consort is someone the ruling > queen intends to be her consort.
The phrase "intended consort" is not commonly encountered. As individual words, however, the first, although a dialect form, is highly familiar to most Americans through a popular television show (The Beverly Hillbillies), and the second is common and frequent as well.
