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rthstewart) wrote2010-01-13 10:33 pm
rthstewart) wrote2010-01-13 10:33 pm
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Chapter 14, getting to "going there"
So, Chapter 14 is up with the loathesome and naked Tarkheena Lasaraleen. Loads of plot, world building, and cross over to the real world, including:
The Trickster is a very interesting personage in mythology, religion, entertainment, and psychology. It seems to me that this patron of the weak and oppressed belongs in Calormen too, and he really loves irritating his older brother, Tash.
Pictures of the Tarot cards are here, the pivotal Four of Wands and Three of Swords, which is understandably very upsetting to Susan.
**Vice President Henry Wallace was a thorn in the side of the British and they were very, very concerned that he might become President if President Roosevelt died in office or did not stand for re-election on the Democratic ticket in the 1944 election. In May 1944, Wallace visited the Soviet Union, toured Siberia and came away, after an apparent whitewash, believing that the labor camps were happy places filled with cheerful volunteers. Further, Wallace was known to be an adherent of the Soviet author, philosopher, painter and reputed occultist Nicholas Roerich. During the 1940 American Presidential campaign, when Republicans threatened to make embarrassing correspondence between Wallace and Roercih public, Democrats threatened to reveal that the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, was having an affair with writer Irita Van Doren. There was then for a time, a cease fire in the mud-slinging. Wallace ran as the Progressive Party candidate in 1948, was accused of being a communist, and made a lot of enemies by supporting full voting rights for African Americans and an end to segregation. I came away from this research finding him to be a very complex man.
** The Tarkheena Lasaraleen is based very loosely upon newspaper woman Cissy Patterson, who owned The Washington Times Herald. Mrs Patterson was virulently isolationist and an opponent of the Roosevelt Administration. During a dinner party, Mrs. Patterson was purportedly caught in flagrante delicto on the floor of a bathroom with the husband of her close friend, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt). Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Roosevelt Longworth then began retaliatory affairs with the same man, Senator William Borah (R.-Idaho), though Mrs. Patterson was a notorious braggart about her sexual escapades.
***Mrs. Patterson son –in-law was Drew Pearson, the muckraking Tarkaan Anradin of the story. Pearson was responsible for reporting that General George S. Patton's slapped the ill soldier Charles Kuhl, nearly ending Patton’s career. Pearson also threatened to publish love letters between General Douglas MacArthur and MacArthur’s 16 year old Filipino lover, Isabel Rosario Cooper.
The Trickster is a very interesting personage in mythology, religion, entertainment, and psychology. It seems to me that this patron of the weak and oppressed belongs in Calormen too, and he really loves irritating his older brother, Tash.
Pictures of the Tarot cards are here, the pivotal Four of Wands and Three of Swords, which is understandably very upsetting to Susan.
**Vice President Henry Wallace was a thorn in the side of the British and they were very, very concerned that he might become President if President Roosevelt died in office or did not stand for re-election on the Democratic ticket in the 1944 election. In May 1944, Wallace visited the Soviet Union, toured Siberia and came away, after an apparent whitewash, believing that the labor camps were happy places filled with cheerful volunteers. Further, Wallace was known to be an adherent of the Soviet author, philosopher, painter and reputed occultist Nicholas Roerich. During the 1940 American Presidential campaign, when Republicans threatened to make embarrassing correspondence between Wallace and Roercih public, Democrats threatened to reveal that the Republican candidate, Wendell Willkie, was having an affair with writer Irita Van Doren. There was then for a time, a cease fire in the mud-slinging. Wallace ran as the Progressive Party candidate in 1948, was accused of being a communist, and made a lot of enemies by supporting full voting rights for African Americans and an end to segregation. I came away from this research finding him to be a very complex man.
** The Tarkheena Lasaraleen is based very loosely upon newspaper woman Cissy Patterson, who owned The Washington Times Herald. Mrs Patterson was virulently isolationist and an opponent of the Roosevelt Administration. During a dinner party, Mrs. Patterson was purportedly caught in flagrante delicto on the floor of a bathroom with the husband of her close friend, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt). Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Roosevelt Longworth then began retaliatory affairs with the same man, Senator William Borah (R.-Idaho), though Mrs. Patterson was a notorious braggart about her sexual escapades.
***Mrs. Patterson son –in-law was Drew Pearson, the muckraking Tarkaan Anradin of the story. Pearson was responsible for reporting that General George S. Patton's slapped the ill soldier Charles Kuhl, nearly ending Patton’s career. Pearson also threatened to publish love letters between General Douglas MacArthur and MacArthur’s 16 year old Filipino lover, Isabel Rosario Cooper.
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As usual, you've thrown all this stuff in the pot, given it a stir and look what came out - yes it's dense, and intense and difficult, but it's a great story. Truth being stranger than fiction, I'm looking forward to Ch. 15
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I was surprised by the inclusion of the Hope Necklace but considering how unlucky it seems to be, I would not be surprised if the Tarkheena finds herself not as well off as she is right now.
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Please, please, never stop "going there"!
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(Anonymous) 2010-01-16 09:35 am (UTC)(link)Oh, and I've seen the first movie of Isabel Rosario Cooper, titled Miracles of Love. She's an interesting actress. :P
- Lhanae