From: | gt6877c@*****.gatech.edu (S.F. Eley) |
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Subject: | Re: Harlequin & "Ambrose" |
Date: | Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:34:10 -0500 (EST) |
> Not Ehran -- Ambrose is much younger than Harlequin, I think. Harlequin
> calls him "pops" (as in "father") but he says that "pops
from you counts
> as irony, I think," and later there's some things that seem to suggest
> Ambrose has been brought up in a christian environment (when Harlequin
> jokes about Christmas, Ambrose says "don't blaspheme"), which to me just
> about rules out that he's seen the Fourth World.
> However, who this guy _is_ supposed to be, I don't know...
Actually, I think we're looking at the wrong clues. I'm pretty sure now
that it IS Ehran, thanks to a quote someone pointed out in r.g.f.cyber.
Ehran would call the "pops" line ironic because Harlequin himself is very,
very old. H & E had the same teacher, so they're probably about the same
age. "Don't blaspheme" may be just because Ehran is a serious type of
person, and wants Harlequin to show respect for the belief system. It was
sort of a throwaway line anyway.
But the real giveaway is when they're talking about children. The Laughing
Man accuses Ambrose of sending a child away to grow up on its own.. Ambrose
says something to the effect of "Well, I was watching, after all." They're
talking about Jane Foster, Ehran's bastard daughter, who grew up as an
orphan in Columbia, Missouri. (Cf. the original _Harlequin_.) I think that
reference was just too specific to mean anything else.. And yet it was
subtle enough that none of us caught it right away. >8->
Blessings,
_TNX._
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