Parasha: The invisible Man - October 8th reading

[stormfeather]

Man, I hope I'm not the only one doing this this month, since I was so late and somewhat autocratic with the choice :p Anyhow, I've only read this book once, and that was a few years ago and I don't remember that much, so I'll be a bit odd probably in what I remember and what I don't. A lot of it will still seem new to me, I'm sure.

Comments

[khedron]

The hair is so crazy, I'm assuming it's a wig. I suppose it could also be the Mad Scientist's lack of care about his appearance?

I like Mrs. Hall. Not personally, so much, but she's drawn so quickly, and yet we have a good picture of her -- Nosy Parker, doesn't respect her maid (is the maid lazy? we don't have a reliable witness there), 1/4 empathetic overtures and 3/4ths busybody.

"Millie, her lymphatic aid"... y'know, in Christie books, the maids are often described as adenoidal. What is it with the British and their servants and their servants' glands?

I wonder if it has to do with the "bodily humors" and four temperaments? Anyway, I'm glad you commented on it, because at first I would've thought those were synonyms -- adenoids being part of the lymphatic system, after all. But Wordnik implies adenoidal meaning speaking nasally in this context, while lymphatic means lazy or sluggishAs far as piebald goes, I have seen people like that, though rarely; I just took the horse analogy to be a quick definition for someone

[stormfeather]

Yeah, I know some few people are piebald, I think probably due to chimerism, but the way it's put in the book, they sound like it should be the norm, just because that's how horses are.