So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

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So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by a_contemplative_life » Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:51 pm

*Spoilers*

... was the only one who was able to see "Death" (as herself) when everyone else could not look at Death?
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Post by DMt. » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:00 pm

Because she and her Grandma can dree their ain wyrd?

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Re: So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by Wolfchild » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:31 pm

But others had seen Death, but Death appeared to each of them differently. Eva had already seen Death and incorporated it into her books as a character.

JAL explains Flora's vision of Death to us himself:
For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.

Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.
It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.
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Re: So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by intrige » Fri Nov 26, 2010 6:50 pm

I thought THAT was interesting, everyone as their own image of death. I wonder what death looks like throught my eyes? Hmm:P
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Re: So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by drakkar » Sat Nov 27, 2010 12:16 am

Flora seemed to just know what it all was about. (HtU and the final handling viewed as an unit).
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Re: So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by Hume » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:37 pm

Wolfchild wrote:But others had seen Death, but Death appeared to each of them differently. Eva had already seen Death and incorporated it into her books as a character.

JAL explains Flora's vision of Death to us himself:
For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.

Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.
It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.
And for the religious character, Elvy, Death appears as the Virgin Mary.

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Re: So Why Is It That Flora... (spoilers)

Post by jdudley118 » Fri Nov 25, 2011 1:41 am

Hume wrote:
Wolfchild wrote:But others had seen Death, but Death appeared to each of them differently. Eva had already seen Death and incorporated it into her books as a character.

JAL explains Flora's vision of Death to us himself:
For me death is a wolf, Peter thought and Flora realized that something she had thought was only imaginative play was her own fundamental belief: she herself was Death.

Of all the ways it was possible to imagine Death as a human figure-the man with the scythe, the Phantom Charioteer, a leering skeleton or an old African woman-Flora had been drawn to the idea of Death as a twin sister. It stemmed from a couple of years ago when she had been standing in front of the mirror with a candle trying to summon the Dark Lady, and seen only herself. The idea had come to her then.
It took Flora a great effort to turn her head to look at Death. Not surprising, if you see yourself as Death.
And for the religious character, Elvy, Death appears as the Virgin Mary.
I just finished this book!
What I liked about Death in this book was how everyone saw Death differently but no matter what the person saw Death always had hooks on their fingers. That was a pretty cool description of Death.
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