Yeah, spoilerhiding stuff often just gives me garble. But marking it should be fine. I've been meaning to put up a note to that effect, actually -- telling people to assume spoilers in comments.
So, keeping in mind that I often don't really sink into McKillip's books, that they feel like they're happening under glass for me, and so I often don't connect emotionally to them. Given all that, I was still relatively comfortable with the ending. I read it as her calling herself, that the blammor/liralen was the two-faced rage/wonder in her. Which is a little trite, but it's very McKillip to have the mythical beasts be psychological objects. And I liked what that said about the rest of the story -- that the terrifying things the blammor did were the terrifying parts of her.
Generally agreed, though -- the book seemed oddly ambivalent in places about whether calling was an invasion or not. I just assumed it must be, and her reaction to being called herself certainly suggested it.
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Re: SPOILERS
Date: 2011-09-02 04:36 pm (UTC)So, keeping in mind that I often don't really sink into McKillip's books, that they feel like they're happening under glass for me, and so I often don't connect emotionally to them. Given all that, I was still relatively comfortable with the ending. I read it as her calling herself, that the blammor/liralen was the two-faced rage/wonder in her. Which is a little trite, but it's very McKillip to have the mythical beasts be psychological objects. And I liked what that said about the rest of the story -- that the terrifying things the blammor did were the terrifying parts of her.
Generally agreed, though -- the book seemed oddly ambivalent in places about whether calling was an invasion or not. I just assumed it must be, and her reaction to being called herself certainly suggested it.