In the ninth part of Thief of Time<\/i>, Igor is suspicious, Lady LaJean reveals herself, and Lu-Tze and Lobsang bond. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Lots to address, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get into this!<\/p>\n
Igor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Instinct<\/b><\/p>\n
The sense I got from this is that the survival instinct in Igor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s is passed down through the family. It has to be, especially since there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a high risk involved with being<\/i> an Igor. As he puts it, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only thing more certain for an Igor than anything else: once they know a situation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone south, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ready to leave.<\/p>\n
So when an Igor has a bad feeling about something, it becomes the most obvious canary in the coal mine imaginable. Something is wrong with Lady LaJean, he knows it, and Jeremy just won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it. You know, I understand why I thought Jeremy was the son of time because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just so eerie about his obsession and talent. Even reading this again and seeing how casually he dismisses Igor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s concerns makes me feel like I shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be so hard on myself. It was a good theory! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that Lobsang fits the theory better<\/i>, you know?<\/p>\n
At the same time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that some other<\/i> force appears to be driving Jeremy. Or maybe he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just so full of himself that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care<\/i> to stop and analyze what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing. The guy is assembling a perfect clock with an unlimited supply of money, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contracting people through Igor to do RIDICULOUS things, and he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t at all critical of a single portion of it. In that context, I wonder if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the sheer act of doing something billed to be impossible that fuels Jeremy. He wants to be the second person in history to build a Glass Clock, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna do it even better than the person before him. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 narcissistic spite???<\/p>\n
So, clearly I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the best grasp on Jeremy as a character, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m working on it. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve comparatively had less time with him than pretty much all of the other major characters, but this is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got so far. Plus, his interactions with Lady LaJean are about the only time we see any emotion from him. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s detached otherwise, but once he talks about that damn Clock? He comes alive<\/i>, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to ignore that. It couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just be a love for time, could it? See, I thought that pretty much explained Jeremy, but then this happened:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I was wondering, um, your ladyship, um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 perhaps, um, you would like to take dinner with me, um, tonight, um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n SO I DID NOT EXPECT THIS AT ALL, FRIENDS. Clearly, neither did Lady LaJean, though that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s explained shortly after this. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a bold move, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? Is he interested in her because<\/i> she gave him this job? Or is it something else?<\/p>\n Lady LaJean<\/b><\/p>\n Well, I guessed who she was just<\/i> before it was revealed, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 yay me? The Auditors are<\/i> having the Glass Clock built, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like a massive surprise. But having an Auditor inhabit a human body??? Now that<\/i> is interesting, especially since the Auditors completely refuse to understand humans. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re disgusting by human behavior. By human disorganization. By human orifices<\/i>. Everything about humans disgusts them!<\/p>\n Yet look how interested the Auditors are in all the mundane, benign parts of human life. THEY ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR BEINGS WHO DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T CARE ABOUT HUMANS. Quite suspicious, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you think?<\/p>\n Also, this was too real:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 yes. That is exactly what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I do not wish to continue in this way any longer than necessary,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she added. And realized that she had lied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n OH. OH, SHIT. THIS IS THE BEST DEVELOPMENT IN THIS SECTION. She is enjoying<\/i> the overwhelming, frightening, and joyous experience of being human, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. YES. MORE OF THIS. M O R E.<\/p>\n Lu-Tze<\/b><\/p>\n OH MAN, BACKSTORY ON THE GLASS CLOCK! This was a welcome part of this section, and having it personalized through Lu-Tze was even better. You get a real taste for his frustration because he was so close<\/i> to stopping it! Yet the Glass Clock, constructed in Uberwald by Jeremy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandfather, wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stopped, and so time got stuck<\/i>. The way Lu-Tze spoke of it, it sounded catastrophic. Except right when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about to explain what happened upon it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completion, he stops talking and changes the subject. NO, I NEED TO KNOW. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do that to me! Thankfully, Lobsang stops him the second<\/i> time he does this exact thing, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how I learn that Wen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great secret was\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 love poems?<\/p>\n I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO LOST.<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/K_a4Hnd6RxE?a<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n -\u00c2\u00a0Please visit my new site for all announcements<\/a>. If you’d rather not have to rely on checking a website regularly, sign up for my newsletter instead<\/a>! 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