Chapter 10 of the Aphanes completed

[tocryabout]

Chapter 10, The Wide Unknown Country¹, is finished. Scott! Wittgenstein! Major plot turning point!

(Read from the beginning.)


¹ I always heard that line as "wild and old country", but the official version works even better.

Comments

[to-cry-about.livejournal.com]

(altho why they had to feminize her I d'know, perhaps to make the deceit Extra Special Helpless because she was a Gurl! &c).

You could read that in a lot of ways -- I guess I saw it as underscoring the fact that Jason Stryker doesn't really have an identity of his own, a sense of his own body, so he creates his own and steals from others and so on. Or it could be a cunning way of making Xavier put his guard down. I really liked that storyline just because there was so much left unsaid, and so many ways you could look at it.

Is Joel's extreme haircutting perhaps a little reference to the ancient Greek custom of mourning wossname?

Yeah, I was thinking about that when I wrote it. A lot of the ancients (at least in Southern Europe/Middle East/North Africa) had customs of mourning by shaving the head or cutting hair, the Greeks included. Here it's a Biblical reference, specifically to Job (which will come up in the next chapter).

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Sweeeet. :D