tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post9201634921983364718..comments2024-01-19T08:23:25.128-05:00Comments on thrall (a. regina cantatis): A Peek Beneath the Duct Tape: Sleepwalkers, Chapter 8thrallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-42003814864420701942013-08-22T07:02:26.005-04:002013-08-22T07:02:26.005-04:00Just hang in there a little longer. Chapter 9 shou...Just hang in there a little longer. Chapter 9 should perk you up.thrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-12796771313307364752013-08-22T04:38:47.006-04:002013-08-22T04:38:47.006-04:00I'll leave the speculation to others.
I need...I'll leave the speculation to others. <br /><br />I needed a little while to process this chapter. It was possibly one of the the most horrible things in this field I have read (the only thing that affected me more was an incident in a story on the EMCSA once where a small child unwittingly reinforces the brainwashing of her own mother by being encouraged to feed her drugged sugar lumps, which I could. not. cope with at all).<br /><br />This scene, where Paul murders Shara by forcing himself to submit to his programming, and orgasms at the end, this was so very, very hard to read. But, I think you got away with it. It just skirts the edges of being a snuff scene, getting away with it partly because it avoided dwelling on the details of Shara's dying (and thank you for that), and partly because, I think, you know how awful it is. I did not find it erotic, but the fact that you are struggling with it, with the fetish (as I do), and that this is encoded in the text, makes it compelling. <br /><br />It was of course beautifully written. <br /><br />Please don't make it a bleak ending, though. I don't think I could cope with it. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541929061108017234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-33581618348412885782013-08-19T20:32:39.530-04:002013-08-19T20:32:39.530-04:00I'm glad to see you broadening your speculatio...I'm glad to see you broadening your speculations! Obviously, I can't comment on whether any of them are on target or not. ;-Pthrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-7775134301306543572013-08-19T13:08:19.368-04:002013-08-19T13:08:19.368-04:00Hmm..Wizard..
I thought about it and I'm not ...Hmm..Wizard..<br /><br />I thought about it and I'm not at all confident about any of them (but excited/anxious to read it).<br /><br />One being that she's reimprinted, but that's kind of a stretch, because they wouldn't think she'd be Awake in the first place.<br /><br />The next being, her death. Which I don't think is a possibility, only because it'd be a *super* painful scene and thrall already got through her three so :P. <br /><br />The last one would be...if they suspect someone else (a Cab, Hawthorne vs a Cab) of using her to spy on say, Ortiz or to do something other than what she's programmed to do.<br /><br />I think the only true outside force to me is like Maria, and assumably the other imprinted spies they have in Peacekeepers working with the Resistance. <br /><br />Otherwise everyone is caught in the Mount Weather bubble, so to speak, and Hawthorne *still* has that place locked down so, *something* has to happen to give Paul&co an edge, besides Hawthorne's hubris and ignorance :p.Uzobononoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-36934675349074365412013-08-19T03:09:23.475-04:002013-08-19T03:09:23.475-04:00Admittedly, when I said "time is numbered&quo...Admittedly, when I said "time is numbered" this morning, it didn't entirely mean dead. Just caught, perhaps sent back to Weisen to give them a better look at Waker, or just reimprinted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-76395786834362061752013-08-19T01:49:09.789-04:002013-08-19T01:49:09.789-04:00"Pinned down" doesn't necessarily me..."Pinned down" doesn't necessarily mean "gotten rid of", just "neutered".<br /><br />It also doesn't mean "fingered as free". Remember that the Cabs don't trust each other, and Wizard's prime was Hawthorne. If Ortiz figures that Hawthorne's Level Two in her unit is doing something she's not supposed to be doing, her first target of suspicion isn't going to be Wizard herself, it's going to be Hawthorne.magic9mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17258030737562545216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-83039476477527237842013-08-18T19:54:14.092-04:002013-08-18T19:54:14.092-04:00Let me just invite you to study my wording further...Let me just invite you to study my wording further. ;-Pthrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-25995623006406746322013-08-18T19:26:02.927-04:002013-08-18T19:26:02.927-04:00...You mean im wrong? I hope so, it was just a gu......You mean im wrong? I hope so, it was just a guess,this is a very intriguing novel, soo many twists and turns, (i love it all), i hope that the wizard is spared, & makes it to the end intact, i do expect her to go through some discomfort of course, as a result of her sending that transmission, but she knew the risks involved...you are right, it was just a guess, but i hope I'm wrong.....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547900883971645110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-57772469881697155732013-08-18T18:54:39.788-04:002013-08-18T18:54:39.788-04:00Wow, you three are really jumping to a lot of conc...Wow, you three are really jumping to a lot of conclusions! ;-Pthrallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01228794853493421326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-74981013925583934112013-08-18T12:41:36.532-04:002013-08-18T12:41:36.532-04:00I think that when she is caught, she will be kille...I think that when she is caught, she will be killed just like lefevbre was,awww.... I've really grown attached tho her resourcefulness, if there is anyone in this story who should come out of it a hero it (to me) surely should be her....but, since we know now that she will be caught? will she kill herself? (unsexy) or will she be re-imprinted again (sexy)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547900883971645110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-76915030205166276492013-08-18T11:45:36.637-04:002013-08-18T11:45:36.637-04:00The only problem is if she's caught and reimpr...The only problem is if she's caught and reimprinted wouldn't she give Paul away?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-540840190634112721.post-86485796092272772972013-08-18T10:43:12.296-04:002013-08-18T10:43:12.296-04:00Sadly it was pretty clear that Wizard's time i...Sadly it was pretty clear that Wizard's time is numbered, there was too much that could go wrong with her, even without directly helping Paul. A dip in her already show to be skilled performance at surveillance, even any more than a quick glance, as one would think faking being a level 2 would be tricky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com