Page 2 of 2
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:52 pm
by Seafoam Understone
DukkhaWaynhim wrote:Pitchwife being responsible for the death of the First's father provided Linden with a much-needed model for untainted love and redemption.
Linden was shown that someone responsible for another's death could still in fact be worthy and even loved by one close to the person lost.
I think we all agree that Linden's gift of spine-straightening at the end of WGW was the right thing to do: it was within her power, and it was her way of thanking the two Giants that to me had the greatest effect on her own emotional healing, since they were the model for the family life she never had.
While it may have caused some fleeting problems with getting into tight spaces, Pitchwife's Wiving skill itself was not affected, and he finally got a body tall enough to fit his great heart.
Our world needs more Giants.
DukkhaWaynhim
I agree because Pitchwife was indeed a Giant more than his stature.
I don't think because he won't be able to fit into tight spaces anymore will be a burden on his wiving... he had to be lifted up to mend the broken spar of the Starfare's Gem and likewise he can still do other work as he did by mending the Galley and the side of the ship when the Spar was broken loose. I'm sure all dromonds had their own "Pitchwives", much like sailing ships of old had carpenters, which leads me to believe that (my favorite) Giant had his own name unrevealed and Pitchwife was a title like Glossamer Glowlimb's "First of The Search" ... so mystery here is and I cannot recall any mention of it what was Pitchwife's real name?
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:25 am
by danlo
Maurice?
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:30 am
by Landwaster
He was a giant, not a Bee Gee.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:34 am
by variol son
His real name is never mentioned. He was always just Pitchwife.
Sum sui generis
Vs
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:35 am
by Landwaster
Wiving was mainly an open-space job anyway, it was just that he had a little more usefulness because the rarer small jobs were not as tricky for him.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:40 am
by danlo
"Some people call me the Space Cowboy,
some call me the Gangster of Love...
some people call me Maurice,
cause I speak of the pompitous of love.."
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:17 am
by caamora
I'm sure all dromonds had their own "Pitchwives", much like sailing ships of old had carpenters,
Great point, Seafoam! I had never considered other drommonds and other pitchwives. Surely not all of them were short of stature!
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:25 am
by Landwaster
I wonder if they used younger, smaller youths for small-space jobs when they didn't have a bloke with a misaligned back to call upon ...
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:42 am
by Fist and Faith
Furls Fire wrote:I think that Pitchwife will get along just fine. He always felt that the First loved him more out of pity then anything else.
I disagree:
"I will not conceal from you that I felt great blame at the death of Brow Gnarlfist. You surpass me, for you saved Mistweave and yet did not lose the Giantfriend. For a time which endured beyond the end of that voyage, I could not bear to meet the loss in Gowlimn's countenance." But gradually his expression lightened. "And yet a strange fruit grew from the seed of her father's end, and of my hand in that loss. After her bereavement, I gained a place in her eyes - for had not her father and I saved a great many Giants whom she loved? She saw me, not as I beheld myself - not as a cripple to be blamed - but rather as the man who had given her father's death meaning. And in her eyes I learned to put aside my blame."
There's no mention of pity in their love. Yes, as I quoted on the previous page:
He was myself as even Gossamer Glowlimn my love might desire me in her pity. For who would not have loved such a Giant, or desired him?
But that's not the same as loving him mainly for that pity. Pitchwife is one of the wisest characters ever created, and I think he knew the difference.
But even if he really did think she loved him because of that, she proves that she does not. The First is awesome!!:D
"In my testing, one of the Elohim came before me in the semblance of a Giant. By some art, he contrived to wear the lineaments and countenance of Pitchwife. But not my husband as I have known him. Rather, he was Pitchwife as he might have grown from a perfect birth - flawless of limb, tall and proud of stance, hale in every way which becomes a Giant." Memory suffused her gaze; but her tone held its cutting edge. "He stood thus before me as Pitchwife should have been born and grown, so that the outward seeming well became the spirit I have learned to love."
Pitchwife stood near her, listening with a crooked smile. But he did not try to express the things which shone in his orbs.
The First did not waver. "At first I wept. But then I laughed. For all his cunning, that Elohim could not equal the joy which enlightens Pitchwife my husband."
Just one more reason that the First is a cool as they come!
This perfect, gloriously beautiful being before me is not the equal of my husband. 
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:46 am
by Landwaster
I you love her that much, you should change your name to
First & Faith!
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:48 am
by Fist and Faith
SWEET!!!
Starting to sound a bit like
Firth of Fifth,eh?
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:55 am
by Landwaster
Hehe yes it is
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:55 am
by danlo
By Genesis? Great song!
The 1st rocks, and is hot too....
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:58 am
by Landwaster
I think I prefer someone a little more petite
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 4:59 am
by Fist and Faith
And she's got HUGE...
weapons!!! Man, just how long is that sword anyway?!
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:42 pm
by dlbpharmd
In reading this thread, I'm reminded of the scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian, where Brian encounters an ungrateful leper who was healed by Christ. The leper longs to be made lame so he can have something that is "beggable." Very funny scene.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:04 pm
by Seafoam Understone
Fist and Faith wrote:And she's got HUGE...
weapons!!! Man, just how long is that sword anyway?!
First's sword?? or Pitchwife's
Well figgure the average Long sword had a blade roughly 3 feet in length then add another 14-16 inches for the handle. That's proportial to HUMAN standards... By Giantish standards I'd wager the First's sword was anywhere from 6 to 8 feet in total length with at least two and half feet in handle alone. If I recall Giants averaged about 12 feet in height...thus double the normal average human (male) height of 6-1 (or two meters for the Aussies on this group) so she would have a proportionally sized sword.
The one she got from Briathanier <sic> Harbor or Gaddi's keep was one she found that suited her size.
I've always wondered what SRD meant by "Iron Beauty" the only (human) women I can even remotely compare that to would be Bridgett Neilsen (of Rocky IV fame) and mebbe Geena Davis.
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:14 pm
by danlo
Yes and I've mentioned Geena Davis as playing the 1st in TCTC the Movie! (now how big would that make the 1st's.....?
)