Here are some things that puzzle me or ponder me:
Family tree - Auberon Drinkwater reveals the key.
I think it is New York and up along the Hudson. As Smokey leaves the city, things become "disordered." According to whose definition? Perhaps the opposite walk toward the city brings disorder.
Smokey: born when his father was nearly 60; inherited the Barnable anonymity (pages 5 and 9.)
I think he remains somewhat anonymous with his new family.
Smokey's ideal was the Dreamland of the comic book where boys could dream.
"...he would be the one that it had been promised she would find or make up."
"Take Smoky upstairs. He's in the imaginary bedroom."
What is going on here?
Last paragraph, page 37. Who is Sophie talking about?
The house is the world of Edgewood, inside and out.
My favorite "shiver maker": page 79. "And he found the faces."
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My question is: Are they all smoking the wedding present Smoky was expecting and received? That would explain a lot -- including his name.
Ed
And now that I think about it, what about some of the other names . . . like Cloud, for instance (as in "Puff the Magic Dragon") or names that are flowers or relate to the outdoors (brambles, forests, meadows, woods, mouse, etc.). Maybe these characters aren't hippies. Maybe they just have hippie names and live this unusual life in their self-financed, dope-induced commune that some might call Fantasy Land.
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck . . .
Ed
Here's one take on the end of page 37. DailyAlice says to Sophie: "Someday soon it'll be you...you'll be a June bride." Sophie says, essentially, "no way" b/c "He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us...."
Maybe "he" refers (again with the pronouns) to the imaginary husband-to-be Alice alludes to, and "they" refers to the powers (gods/goddesses, fairies?) who arrange for the future or whatever the hell is going on here. And Crowley goes on to hint that "they" might be Great-aunt Cloud who "just then..was pondering" and their mother ("...their mother also felt though not with the same plain curiosity but a sort of maneuvering within the armies of Possibility" and now even Smoky himself ("..and what Smokey too...just then trembled with....").
Pam
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