STARS AND STONES!!WARNING: SEVERE GEEKINESS AHEADSo, I’ve been through Jim Butcher’s Harry Dre
STARS AND STONES!!WARNING: SEVERE GEEKINESS AHEADSo, I’ve been through Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden books (at least up to Changes) about a dozen times or so. However, I caught something this trip through Fool Moon that I hadn’t really stopped on before… (Also, FUCKING SPOILERS for this series, especially from Ghost Story on. Consider yourselves warned.)When Harry is in the car with Susan and Tera West after Harley MacFinn went wolfy up in the holding cells down from Special Investigations, he falls unconscious and meets his internal, primal, instinctual, id-driven, subconscious “evil twin” for the first time. You remember. He’s wearing the leather duster and has the beard and is all “I-can’t-do-the-banter-thing, but I-could-get-us-laid-a-lot-more,” and so on and so forth.Well, in the midst of that conversation, as Harry is moaning about how tired he is and doesn’t want to deal with shit and goes to leave the circle of light, Subconscious Harry steps in front of him, blocks his path and drops this line: “It isn’t that simple, Harry. No matter where you go, there you are.” Flash a dozen books forward to Ghost Story. Harry has solved the mystery of his own murder and is having a conversation with Uriel after seeing Maggie and Mouse. He’s arguing with the Archangel about “balancing the scales” and is getting stonewalled pretty hardcore. Harry finally asks Uriel to tell him “something useful" and he’ll be happy with whatever he gets. Uriel thinks for a moment and then drops the line: “No matter where you go, there you are.”They blather on about it being Buckaroo Bonzai and/or Confucius, but that’s neither here nor there. This is something that Harry already knows, so it’s not new information. However, what’s new is that Harry is being told by the sneakiest fucking entity in the Dresdenverse this side of Mab, one who cannot lie any more than the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, that that particular statement is USEFUL. And it’s right after Harry has accusingly poked at Uriel’s double-speak “maybe” evasions as being a cover for “trying to hit two birds with one stone,” (ie. risk sending Harry back in just his naked soul to work out the balance of things with Molly, but also for some other as yet-unrevealed purpose).So.my question for you lovely geeks is this: am I just imagining things here, or is Jim telegraphing the kick? What possible usefulness might that line have as we watch shit continue to drift further and further sideways for Harry and the rest of the gang? And, yes. Insomnia makes me notice and think about weird shit. You’ll get over it. —Your Friendly Neighborhood Geeky-Ass FoxBear -- source link
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