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Names are important...

terri_testing wrote in sounis Nov 05, 2020 21:54

Many of Turner's names are Greek, or evocative of Greek ones. So I thought I would see if the name Pheris was real, or had a cognate ( Read more... )

return of the thief, names

The Elephant in the Room?

kiscakat wrote in sounis Oct 28, 2017 19:04

Didn't MWT say there was supposed to be an elephant in her next book (e.g. TaT)?

I found the elephant!

P ( Read more... )

thick as thieves, names

Country names?

readsintrees wrote in sounis Jul 10, 2017 19:26

Do we have a thread already where the names of the countries are discussed?

Because today I noticed this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounion

and this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetolia

and this:

names

Who Is Gitta Kingsdaughter? (Spoilers for TaT)

celebrilomiel wrote in sounis May 28, 2017 16:18

( Spoilers hereafter! )

spoilers, speculation, thick as thieves, geography, names, general discussion

Is Eugenides his real name?

readsintrees wrote in sounis May 17, 2017 09:33

Ok, ok, I know we're all excited to discuss TaT, but I want to go back to some Thief 101. During my latest re∞read of the series, I started to wonder whether or not Gen was given the name Eugenides at birth, or if he adopted it later when he decided he wanted to be a thief and not a soldier ( Read more... )

speculation, names, gen

"Steal peace"

mollyringle wrote in sounis Jan 08, 2016 18:43

So I'm re-reading The Queen of Attolia, and I just now picked up on a bit of wordplay that I never noticed before, even though it's literally on the cover.

I have this edition, with the quote on it, "Steal peace, Eugenides. Steal me some time ( Read more... )

book covers, names

Let's play "I Spy"...

readsintrees wrote in sounis Jun 02, 2014 10:53

Today is my two year wedding anniversary, so of course I was flipping through some pictures from our wedding album....when I got to the series of pictures showing our getaway car (which my family has always taken the decorating of very seriously for all weddings ( Read more... )

names, humor

Family

shadowgirlvg wrote in sounis Jun 01, 2013 21:59

Alright, this is a little thing, but it just blew my mind ( Read more... )

stenides, crack, family trees, names

Hurricane Sandy

1221bookworm wrote in sounis Oct 27, 2012 19:05

As we prepare for Hurricane Sandy's impact, we hope that allowing her to blow out her frustrations on the Eastern seaboard will allow her to calm down, and perhaps begin to see Eugenides in a new, better light. (Or at least give him a few sand free days as she is busy elsewhere!!:)

( More Hurricane names ... )

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philologos

pysch_colours wrote in sounis Oct 25, 2011 20:39

we were discussing rhetoric in ap lang and i guess i should have been paying attention to that instead of daydreaming, but my teacher mentioned that logos (and of course i perked up there) meant knowledge.
now, since philo is/is derived from/relating to love, can we make the conjecture that philologos' name (unless i'm having a critical memory ( Read more... )

names, general discussion