A Question

Aplogoies to everyone who posted recently for not chiming in.  Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the sheer volume of details in these stories and with all that I still haven't covered, or have forgotten, or haven't thought through.  Then too, I'm on the last chapter of the current novel, struggling to pull everything together.   That takes up a lot of brain space.

Speaking of details, I just spent most of the morning going through the combined texts, trying to find out if I ever said that the House was Gerridon's soul-image in the soulscape.  I know that Jame thought it or at least its hall was hers, but it isn't.  She's still wandering about there in her rathorn armor.  My sense is that Tagmeth will become part of her soul-image once it really belongs to her.

But back to the House (the inspiration for which, by the way, was William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland).  It never struck me before how many ways it appears in these stories -- in the flesh, as it were; in dreams; in the soulscape; louring in the clouds over Tai-tastigon as an exhalation of the Haunted Lands ....  But I don't think I ever said that a version of it was the Master's soul-image.  Does anyone remember something that I've forgottten or are currently too dazed to remember?

PS:  This is looking ahead, but I expect to be in San Jose  CA for worldcon in August, in case anyone wants to touch base.
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Published on January 26, 2018 11:10
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Jennifer Oleson I cannot remember any indication in the books where you intimated that the House was Gerridon's soul-image. Jame and her rathorn armor was clear, but the owner of the House-as-soul-image has not been clarified.


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