{"id":4868,"date":"2019-01-25T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:23:10","slug":"mark-reads-wintersmith-chapter-6-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2019\/01\/mark-reads-wintersmith-chapter-6-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads &#8216;Wintersmith&#8217;: Chapter 6, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the sixth chapter of <i>Wintersmith<\/i>, Tiffany learns of the ramifications of her participation in the Dance. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read <i>Discworld<\/i>.<!--more--><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Trigger Warning: For discussion of anxiety<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Holy shit. Okay, so&#8230; well, now I have to re-think my perception of the opening chapter, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m assuming that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a possible end, but one where Tiffany saw it all through. So, that would mean she <i>is<\/i> the Summer Lady in that scene, right? Oh god, if this is just the start of her transformation, then what else is coming? WHAT IS THIS BOOK Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let me back up and go through this chronologically, as some of my previous questions were actually answered! Hi, who else out there has an overactive and possibly anxiety-riddled mind that prevents them from going to sleep? Why is it that mere minutes before sleep is imminent, our brains decide this is the optimal time to flood us with mental activity? I can be physically exhausted after a nightmarish day, and yet, my mind decides to replay every mistake I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made in the past twenty years and convinces me I need to think about them in great detail until the early morning. NO THANKS. And yet, this is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to deal with, so I related a lot to Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own difficulties with falling asleep. Even her dream felt like an expression of her anxieties. I guess it still <i>could<\/i> be that, except that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s combined with an actual reality: out in the sea, the Wintersmith has created an iceberg in the shape of Tiffany. Not a bunch of snowflakes, but A WHOLE ICEBERG. Which might actually be threatening ships??? Who knows!!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But this is supposed to impress Tiffany; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s supposed to act as some sort of grand gesture to win her over. And Pratchett makes it clear that this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t working. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a slight sense that Tiffany enjoys the attention from the Wintersmith, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not written in a way that Tiffany finds this to be a suitable thing for someone to do. Oh, no, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clearly <i>awful<\/i>. It also is triggering complicated feelings and realizations in Tiffany. She has to think about marriage in a context she never has before, and it certainly doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that Nanny Ogg asks her about it point-blank. Tiffany is at an age when her body is changing, when she may or may not develop romantic feelings for someone, when she may or may not have to cope with <i>other<\/i> feelings of attraction and desire. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen in everyone, but I feel like Pratchett is tapping into that here. How does Tiffany deal with a world that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rapidly changing around her and inside of her?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anyway: WHO WAS THE WOMAN WITH \u00e2\u20ac\u0153WORRIED\u00e2\u20ac\u009d HAIR AND A \u00e2\u20ac\u0153RATHER RED NOSE\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who helped Tiffany??? No one else mentions her after she leaves Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom in Nanny Ogg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house. HI, WHAT THE HELL.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Of course, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even the strangest thing in this chapter. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I just found out why everyone was so preoccupied with Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feet. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, her transformation into the Summer Lady has begun, which makes me wonder if there were other clues that I just missed because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what was happening to her. Her bare feet on Nanny Ogg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s floor causes the boards to, more or less, spring to life. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a case of Ped Fecundis, or Fertile Feet, and lord, this is only going to get weirder, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? Since we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see that yet, I did want to talk about something else:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I reckon he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in a bit of a tizzy because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never been in love with a human before.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In love?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, he probably thinks he is.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I LOVE THIS DISTINCTION. As Nanny goes on to explain, we have to understand that the Wintersmith isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t human, so when it becomes involved in human affairs and emotions, it literally has no clue what it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing. Winter weather doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t <i>have<\/i> emotions. (Despite that today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s winter cold here in NYC feels pretty damn bitter to me. I DO NOT LIKE.) So, the Wintersmith does not possess any real maturity to deal with the emotions its feeling. It is <i>infatuated<\/i> with Tiffany, believing her to be some new Summer Lady, and it has decided that this is <i>love<\/i>. But love and infatuation are not the same thing, and the Wintersmith doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know this. Oh god, so this is a million times scarier than I thought it was. Someone with an unhealthy infatuation of Tiffany literally doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to conceive of the difference between love and infatuation. GREAT.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I gotta appreciate Granny finding the silver lining in all this, though. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so FUNNY to me. Hey, if Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feet can grow plants <i>instantly<\/i> in the winter, where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the harm in using that to get some fresh vegetables? I like how you think, Nanny Ogg. Just wash them! They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be fine! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re growing <i>out<\/i> of Tiffany\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feet. Which&#8230; could be a thing? Maybe? Okay, granted, I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how this Summer Lady\/turning into a goddess thing works, and I am guessing the end of the chapter is the confirmation that the next one will explain this to me. But come on! Fresh veggies! In the winter! I swear, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DfB_AhQ7rJY<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/the-anger-is-a-gift-paperback-edition-is-out-may-7-2019\">The paperback edition of my debut, ANGER IS A GIFT, is now up for pre-order!<\/a> It comes out on May 7, 2019.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second half of the sixth chapter of Wintersmith, Tiffany learns of the ramifications of her participation in the Dance. Intrigued? 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