Lysistrata Wrote:For By the Sword, yes. You mean, where he says "and yet to be written RJ books"?

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I'm thinking of earlier ones, with the outline, possible dialogue, written in Paul's own hand. The ones I have all start with, "WARNING!--Do Not Read This Outline Before You Read the Book!" Which of course, means you read that =first=:p! Not really. But it's fun to check out when you've finished the book. If you can decipher Paul's sawbone's handwriting, that is.:confused:

Lysistrata Wrote:ok! no, I've never seen that in my editions. You know, here I am just happy when I can get the new book less than one month after its parution...

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:"Parution..." I hadda google that, Lys, but it's a lovely little woid. Pah-ROO-shun? It it 3 syllables or just 2?:p

Lysistrata Wrote:You mean it's not English? drat, you can't trust those words in 'tion. Before its outing. Première. Coming out.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:The google definition included, "appearance," "publication." Would that carry the same flavor in French?

Lysistrata Wrote:Apparence would be a book that looks like a book but is not one (arrrgh!)

Publication is fine, though there might be technical differences with parution.

Back to Srem. If she is the Dog Lady, how did she manage to become everone's mother?

If she had been the better half of the only couple having survived the flood, how does it not show in our genes?

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Dadburnit, I gotta back up and read the whole thread. See, Lys, I'm a crude hombre. Don't think much about the metaphysics of the Jack novels. Like the pages where he kicks ass the best.

Lysistrata Wrote:Too much testoterone.

If Srem is the Dog Lady, maybe she put some of herself in all women surviving the flood?

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I don't believe a guy can have too much testosterone. Though some fellas let it rule them, and that's where problems start.