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“It’s a big, serious world out there; nothing to laugh about. Not ever.
You must teach the children to fear, teach t...
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Teach them to be cruel. Teach them to be the dan...
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Hide in the shadows, then pounce or spring or leap or dro...
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“The meaning of life is the hot blood of your prey on your tongue, the meat that rends beneath your teeth, the corpse of your enemy left in the sun for the carrion eaters to finish.
Haha
you won’t find nobody to help you till you find an empty cave.
nothing leaner, meaner, or obscener
Hyena.”
“Monkey,”
Mrs. Dunwiddy had warned him about this. Give nothing away, he thought. Make no promises.
Get Anansi mad, you never in any more stories.”
That’s another stump of grubs entirely.”
Haha - gotta remember that one!
Haha
Rhinoceros,
Crocodile,
Paired similes
the stuff of the oldest stories (this was long before human-people, of course; whatever made you imagine that people were the first things to tell stories?),
Simile ewww
Simile creepy
Human eyes
are only made to see one version of reality at a time.
while he knew that he was seeing a bird,
What he saw with his eyes was a woman with raven-black hair,
a tattered raincoat, of the kind she wore when he saw her in Piccadilly, later, when it had all started to go bad.
Foreshadowing uh-oh ….
This chapter feels like a climax, but we’re barely 40% of the way through.
“You wish me to help you get rid of Anansi’s bloodline.”
“Then promise me Anansi’s bloodline for my own.”
“I give you Anansi’s bloodline,” Fat Charlie said.
Chilling.
Miss Noles
Mrs. Dunwiddy
Mrs. Bustamonte.
Mrs. Higgler.
the technicolor Ozness of the other place
Haha
the Bird Woman,”
You and your brother. You’re too similar. I guess that is why you fight.”
Haha
ANANSI
Sometimes he is good, sometimes he is bad. He is never evil.
Mawu
Simile
There’s another version of the story where they talk Anansi into the cookpot, too. The stories are all Anansi’s, but he doesn’t always come out ahead.
The bit of being Fat Charlie that Spider liked best was Rosie.
Haha
Simile extended. Weird, yet powerful.
as if, seeing himself in her eyes, he became a wholly better person.
Haha
Spider was used to being able to push reality around a little, just a little but that was always enough.
he had never met anyone who inhabited her own reality quite so firmly as Rosie’s mother.
Haha
Spider, for his part, was having to work.
Haha
Most people do not notice other people. Rosie’s mother did.
