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Post by Hermes on Mar 28, 2012 11:00:47 GMT -5
asoue.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=documents&action=display&thread=30623&page=1Thanks, Antenora, for this splendid resource! I think there's one significant link which is not included - both LS to BB 3 and BB to LS 4 include 'One letter can change everything' (with different sense of 'letter', of course). When you add the link for this you begin to see a interesting pattern of X's, all meeting at the centre, with Lemony's first letter being echoed in Beatrice's last, his second in her penultimate one, and so on. I did wonder if one could complete this pattern by linking LS to BB 4 with BB to LS 3, and LS to BB 5 with BB to LS 2 - but if so I haven't managed to perceive the connections.
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Post by Antenora on Mar 28, 2012 11:28:29 GMT -5
Thanks for the pointer! I'll get to work emending the chart. And I would welcome any more additions, if anyone can find connections I missed (aside from the very frequent motifs such as bats, root beer, etc). I find it odd that these connections between letters aren't more symmetrical. Even though the first and last letters in each sequence are nicely linked, LS 4 and BB 3 actually stand alone. Revised version: ( The original for reference.) Also, anyone who wants to make further revisions to the chart themselves may do so-- since I expect to be pretty busy with academic matters over the next few months.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 28, 2012 16:51:12 GMT -5
LS 4 and BB 3 both mention brae-men, but that's more of a motif if we take into account the sonnet and the answer to Beatrice's sixth question in LS 5. I found it interesting the first and lasts letters clearly parallel each other, giving the story unity, while the middle alludes to itself in all sorts of directions.
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Post by Antenora on Mar 29, 2012 10:26:25 GMT -5
I think that's a valid example of what I'm looking for, since I checked and the phrase "brae-man" only occurs in those two letters. So here is Chart the Third: Note the three parallel lines across the middle, connecting BB X to LS X +1-- the effect is that Lemony seems to be echoing Beatrice, even though his letters were written years before hers.
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Post by Hermes on Mar 29, 2012 16:56:26 GMT -5
I think that's a valid example of what I'm looking for, since I checked and the phrase "brae-man" only occurs in those two letters. My first thought was that that couldn't be right because it was mentioned in LS to BB 5, but of course 'brae-man' doesn't occur there - though it clearly did occur in Beatrices's question which L is answering. In any case these two letters are the first to introduce the 'brae-man' theme. (I think they are also the first to mention root beer floats, though I don't suggest you put that in.) So there seem to be two patterns - the crosses linking L's first letter to B's last, and so on (very blatantly with the first and last of each series, more subtly with some others), and the parallel lines linking L's letters with B's letters 'before' them. Though the flat-footed instructor doesn't fit either pattern.
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