Yes, If I recall properly, Frosty made a comment about being with out internet access for a while. I have tried to contact her as well. Hopefully dpharm, you will have more luck than I.

If it is decided, I raise my hand to volunteer a dissect of Chapter 9. Thanks D.

..Hey, c'mon now, I was there too..that last few percent that he felt he could have given to "closing the window"..would not have made the difference between bitterness or not..imho anyway. I thought the simplicity of that scene made it easier to ..grasp.I was looking for Unification and I...

So..the author brings an end to 40 some years of writing TCOTC,,and you all know better than he about how he ends it..You all respect him and respect his achievements and accolades, so respecting his life long work, that when the End leaves you confused, and dissatisfied,,that it simply must be the ...

Again..its not about ME..Its about You..You have a problem but you don't see a need to solve it.. I don't have a problem. The author solved all my expectations and with most ,did so exceedingly. I'm not talking down to anybody.. You are talking down to yourself. The author has put an end to a life l...

Again, thats your choice..Yet you aren't posting out a Bitterness Blog that collapses under it s own self defeat. Alls can say about your ..over wordy and pretentious quip is ..there was no radio TV etc back then. Even books were for only the very well off. Theater was THE Entertainment for most, al...

Thats a good point Vraith..its like mining for copper and dismissing the turquoise on the way..I mean..while you are in there, the metre is right there along side the alliteration. Might as well.. Heck, the Chapter title is..Summoned To Oppose..O's and S's ..SOS...and...just a bit deeper..Alliterati...

..ha haaa....you all remind me of the guy in back of the English Lit class going on about how Shakespeare sucked and didn't make sense. Yea yeaaa,,trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole and then blame the carpenter because its not working. The issue isn't whether you like TLD or the End o...

No Sir, I can't let you get away with that Cambo....First..the allegory, metaphors, et al have been there all along. I mean..Lord Foul..Lord Foul is a symbol..for despair. ..yellow fanged eyes and all.. As one would expect..the metaphors just got better, finer tuned, more developed etc etc over time...

Dense?..no argument Wild !..but thats not a new trait in the TCoTC , imho. The tragedy in real life gets transposed to " The Land" where everything is an exaggerated upside down inside out version , or metaphoric version, of what has and is transpiring in real life. Its been that way all a...

Thank You lorin !!..It all has to do with how you see. Here is one I call ..

Cloudspotter

My apologies Vraith..I did ask He Who Must Be Named at the E'fest banquet. I asked about his use of alliteration ,,he asked for me to be more specific ( I think),and from there I went to the naturally or worked question, to which he replied ..that he wrote with his ear..( joke here)..and he also rem...

Well ,to uss's remark..Sorry , I will not educate folks on what Surrealism is. Its a state of mind. Its about answering the question..Who Am I?..I can not tell any one Who They Are..Thats for them to answer just like Surrealism itself..As TLD emphasizes..finding those New Choices, New Ways of Seeing...

..whether intended or not..that ilLUSTration of Frosty's is pretty darn good visual metaphor...My Little Pony juxtaposed against the back drop of Female Giants..two of 'em , both detailed explicitly,,, says it all about Jerry's " real knowledge" and experience. ...btw..where has Frosty been?

..okay then..what you credit the haruchai for..is very much the same TC, Linden and Jerry do. TC starts off murdering Joan and with one foot in the grave , just about dead...and arcs to a very much " living" future. Linden experiences the " feel " of ecstatic Love, is taken to be...

well,,okay then..you keep mentioning arcs.. what is Linden's arc?..through out the LC's and for that matter, through out TCoTC?.. To me..its beginning is in past, her parents abuse, her parents lack of anything close to Love for their daughter..They basically shared their " despair of Life"...

..How unfortunate that,,as SRD said himself when confronted with the issue of repetition,,there are different types of despair and different degrees of despair. . .TC and Linden got married..thats not progress? thats not a major step forward ..on any level you care to look at it? ..Sorry , true, not...

yeaa..I like how the author evolves or get us to the " save and damn" in TLD...I don't want to spoil the dissect so I'll just say...you have Save...you have Damn.. you have Save and Damn...Free yourself from the " Or" ! In order to Save the Land..it has to be disassembled ( damne...

Good points Ali...Freedom is Choice..no choices means you have no freedom..So..now we are back to the Cain/ Able parable of the Old Testament..Choice between whatevers is what gives humans freedom..Despair is a choice and as the author puts it..it also makes us stronger,,as long as we know of its pr...

Well Ali, to be fair..3,,groupings of 3,,goes farther back in human kind than Christianity. So its possible to see our 3 protagonists as,,stability..or foundational...It doesn't work for me in a major way, but ,,the past, present and future could be applicable to the threesome in just the basic sens...

There can be a case made around the concept of Love. Linden is great metaphor for Love.. or the search for Love...Afterall, her parents abuse was basically,,without Love..Her " love" for so many years was unreciprocated; Jerry and dead Tom..and of course, TLD starts off with Linden ecstati...