Date: 2017-11-04 05:18 am (UTC)
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It occurred to me while reading the book that the house can be seen as a metaphor for the world of Dragaera itself. Large and sprawling, both in space and time, full of cool stuff; with rules that are teasingly hard to fathom, but which do exist.

(I enjoyed the book more than you seem to have.)

I was interested to learn that Vlad is a photic sneezer...and that, unless I miss my guess, Brust himself is not. He has Vlad looking towards the sun until he sneezes – but that's not how it actually works. In my experience, it's kind of a shock reaction: the light catches me in the corner of my eye, or I move from somewhere relatively dark to somewhere with a lot of glare, and I sneeze right then, or probably not at all. It's not something that builds up.

Do you know of somewhere that annotates all the chapter titles? I know most of them, but there's about half a dozen I don't get. (I have to admit I got the last chapter only after reading the first line of the epilogue.)
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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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