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[OpheliasClone]

Yeah, I see your point. Still...

[H(e)x]

Good call on the pictures, Ophelias Clone. I'd been wondering what the armoured women were in some of them - helped me make the link to the Invisible Man and Henry's jewellery.

4/26 and 13/17 also match -- added to your list, that means that actually most of the pictures in the book do. I can't make sense of most of them, except that the armored woman and primoris maximus keep reappearing.

It's also worth noting that, because chapter 30 (which is an epilogue of sorts) is left out of the sequence, it centres in on chapter 15, when Zach first meets Henry. That's a thematic tand narrative turning point as well, so it fits neatly.

I think this business with the armored madonna is probably a pecursor to a coming novel in the series, which will go more into Henry's past. Knowing there are more mysteries there helps make sense of why his arrest record is included in the evidence pack -- and why there are so many bizarre thefts in it, including one of an "armored figure" from the medieval diorama at the House on the Rock. What the armored madonna means is one such mystery; who the Invisible Man is is another (remember we never found out; only that DA Taylor recognised him and lied).

As for the business with the dates . . . I'm most likely to chalk it up to mistakes. But I'll go over it again soon and see if I can come up with anything else.

[OpheliasClone]

It does seem we do have a general pattern here, but one with exceptions.

[H(e)x]

It is really strange that the dates contradict each other (and reality) all over the place so much! But I can't think of a way to extract information from the errors, whether or not they're intentional. If there is something hidden in them, I don't know what it's for. I'm on the point of e-mailing the author and asking about those and the typos!

I'm pretty sure the picture in 15 is Henry, not the Invisible Man. Although the clothing doesn't match the description, the hair and face does -- and the Invisible Man wears glasses. In which case I think he priest in 27 is also a representation of Henry -- who has at that point become like Zach's confessor and advisor, who carries a book in the same hand in 15, and whose smile is the closing image of that chapter.

Extensive net searching has brought up no reference I can find to a book called "Guarding the Light", or to those words in the various IG websites. I'm willing to sit on this stuff, assuming it's foreshadowing of a future book, and that the pattern centring on 15 is just a need piece of thematic structuring.

. . . if it weren't for the dates business . . . grr . . .

[Laguz]

triangles and armor

[DeleriumTremens]

Anything new?

[Deanodon]

I brought my meaningfully marked up copy to ArgfestoCon, and I will ask Jordan Weissman whether the typos are just typos or what tomorrow night.

Then I will either get an autograph, or be escorted out of the building, depending on how the first part goes.

[H(e)x]

Great stuff! Could you also ask abouy the dates issues? And see if you can get him to drop any hints about the pictures?

[OpheliasClone]

Good luck, Deanodon!

I've been looking back at that chapter picture with the dates. I'm trying to think whether 1998 and Saturday might have meanings of their own. Well, 1998 is the year Drake's family died.

Saturday is trickier. The only reference I've found is online.

[Spellcrafter]

Alliance website

[Deanodon]

Hey everyone,

So I talked to Jordan Saturday night. Here's what he said:

[kosmopol]

OK, I'm through too. Great book!

I know, many questions will come to my mind, but...

Here's the first:

[joehempel]

Just wondering if anyone has started listening to the Personal Effects Podcast to see if there is anything there? I'm going to start tonight.

[daniel.s]

Henry

[kosmopol]

Re: Henry