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booba
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Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Curious note on the names of the Pretenders.
'Lucy and Mina are the ringleaders. Stephanie and Anne are the wannabees. I just sort of rotate from a distance, like Pluto."
In literature, Lucy and Mina become vampires, while Stephanie and Anne write about them.
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 2:33 pm
posse
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Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 448 Location: Las Vegas, NV
booba wrote:
Curious note on the names of the Pretenders.
'Lucy and Mina are the ringleaders. Stephanie and Anne are the wannabees. I just sort of rotate from a distance, like Pluto."
In literature, Lucy and Mina become vampires, and Stephanie and Anne write about them.
Yeah I caught that too! Other vampire tie-ins: Xan = Xander, the best friend in Buffy the Vampire Slayer . There's also a possible allusion to the film Lost Boys -- Emerson is the last name of the protaganist and David is the name of the head vampire from the movie.
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 3:30 pm
bluesylvia
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Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
posse wrote:
There's also a possible allusion to the film Lost Boys -- Emerson is the last name of the protaganist and David is the name of the head vampire from the movie.
Personally, I think the name connections here are more closely related to the transcendentalist writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
Emerson because the quote "Moonlight into Noon" comes from one of his poems, and also the blog entitled "Dark" hints at another famous R.W.E quote: "Life is a journey, not a destination."
And David I connect with Thoreau just because you never really had one without the other.
But both men were quite big into journaling and Henry David died before Emerson.
But the vampire idea is certainly intriguing! Especially with there being the "Pretenders" and the "Old Masters", it makes me think of two opposing factions.
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I also think it's interesting that Emerson lied to her supposed best friend about her brother's journal. Clearly there is something in the journal she doesn't want Xan to see.
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:33 pm
zerovin
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Joined: 23 Sep 2012 Posts: 162 Location: Australia
There is a new blog post about Xan where she talks about him not knowing everything. She has also kind of given him an ultimatum as well
Quote:
Will he embrace the truth, which will mean betraying everyone else? Or will he stand with the rest, which will mean betraying me?
there is also a new protected post, called "class notes: entry 3". I've been trying to find out the pass and inputting stuff like that anagram from "dark" and various other words, but no luck.
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 9:23 pm
bluesylvia
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Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
Yeah, I'm pretty stuck on the PW too for now...
I wonder if there is a pattern to the passwords since we have three kinds of documents: David's journals, Emerson's class notes, and then kind of an ETC category.
Also, from Emerson:
Quote:
Yep, I love Emerson. My namesake! Or I'm his namesake. I can keep that straight, lol.
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 12:30 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Class Notes: Entry #3 PW solve
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
PW is 'cross' as that means Crux (from her latest blog entry title)
Am hanging by a thread now waiting for more from Emerson & from y'all. Intriguing. When the PW list expands I'll post a chronological list on the trailhead post.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:14 am
mrshomersimpson
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Joined: 10 Jun 2012 Posts: 998 Location: scotland
amandel wrote:
Class Notes: Entry #3 PW solve
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
PW is 'cross' as that means Crux (from her latest blog entry title)
Am hanging by a thread now waiting for more from Emerson & from y'all. Intriguing. When the PW list expands I'll post a chronological list on the trailhead post.
would be awesome - was only just followed by the person on twitter so playing catch up i guess
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 5:21 am
Sarah B
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Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 616 Location: Stonehenge, UK
Ok, so someone mentioned museum, so I'm in.
Posse, ask if there's any copies of the music you could see/hear? Maybe he hid words in the notes, spelling them out.
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Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 6:20 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Hi Sarah! Am also awaiting an email from Em about David's musical msgs. Mine is in reffy to Mozart's Masonic Music which is regarded as purely humanist & not occult.
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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 7:54 am
bluesylvia
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Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
New stirrings from Emerson. New blog post about some trouble with insomnia and I got an update from Emerson that I'm wrong with thinking David was named for Thoreau (with a subject title from a W.H. Auden poem "Funeral Blues").
Anyone hear back about the David's music?
Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:25 am
spoonhead99
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 269 Location: Hastings, UK
Given some of the themes so far let's see if Emerson starts taking her steak extra rare.....
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:00 am
S.P.I.
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Ooo -- fascinating, fascinating! I will probably just lurk on this ARG for now -- somewhere close to amandel's right shoulder -- but I wanted to let others know that I am here.
*waves*
Great job, so far, everyone!
I like the way Emerson thinks. When I wrote a blog, I quit a while back, I would do weird things like what she is doing now. Someone mocked me openly on the blog comments for my poetic blather. Oh well, it was fun. But hey, you know what they say, if it makes you insane to do it in real life, it will make a character interesting to do it in fiction. He he.
My love to all of you!
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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 10:00 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Emerson Ray in an email reply wrote:
Yeah, David really liked Mozart and all that stuff about music and semiotics. He was a lot smarter than me, so I don't know much about it. Maybe there will be some stuff about it in his journal.
Here's a Wiki LINK to their page about 'semiotics' & Emerson is keen to know our favorite paintings at twitter. Hi S.P.I. *waves back* & hope to see you here often.
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 2:39 am
spoonhead99
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Joined: 15 Aug 2009 Posts: 269 Location: Hastings, UK
Had a little chat with Em over the email
Spoonhead wrote:
Spoon : I'm here if you want to talk.
Em : Hi Spoon! I like your name!
What do you like to talk about?
Spoon : Question
"Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
Em : Man, of course! That was the riddle Oedipus answered to defeat the Sphinx and save the city of Thebes. Too bad the rest of the story didn't turn out so well...
Spoon : Which do you prefer, the old myths or more recent works by Shelley and Stoker?
Em : Hi Spoon!
Sorry it took me so long to email back. Major spring doldrums. Do you ever get those?
Myths about what?
Are you referring to Mary Shelley? I just love her book Frankenstein. Do you know she wrote that after spending the weekend with a bunch of writers and they all dared each other to come up with scary horror stories?
Spoon : Your blog expresses an interest in myths and legends. I like early European folklore. Faeries can be quite vicious buggers.
As for spring it hasn't really started yet.
Not sure if this points to anything yet.
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Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 3:59 pm
bluesylvia
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Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
Good to see Emerson is still alive! I was getting concerned.
So two new posts on her blog: one complaining about April (and I can certainly relate, being in Colorado where we've suddenly been pounded by more snow than we've seen in the past two years...) and another saying she plans on speaking more through pictures than words because "words can also lie and deceive."
She also brings up the tweets, so if anyone else wishes to throw out their favorite paintings to Emerson on Twitter I'd do so now...
In case anyone is interested, the T.S. Eliot poem hinted at by Emerson is called The Waste Land. It's long, but actually quite pretty.
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:29 pm
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