Marianne Anders
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10/8/2015
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Friends, colleagues, fellow players:
I have been revisiting the Dangerous content since the recent update and have come upon the Labyrinth of Tigers. Looking at the mysterious maze with new eyes, I was delighted to recognize people from our world who had previously gone unmentioned in Fallen London's - but on researching, I lack confirmation.
So, like, I'm pretty sure that:
Walter the elderly and cantankerous rhinoceros - Sir Walter Scott
Mary the playful octopus - Mary Shelley
Jane the disgruntled lizard - Jane Austen
the hyenas Charlotte, Anne and Emily - The Bronte sisters
the romantic penguins Robert and Elizabeth - Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
is there anyone or anything I'm missing? I'm assuming that these writers were actually turned into animals, but are there any storylets that confirm or deny this that I'm not aware of? I know that the Labyrinth has a strong connection to Parabola - on the fourth level you have people who are possessed by fingersnakes, I believe - and there's a bunch of stuff with the Bishop of Southwark that I haven't fully explored.
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Not all who wander are lost. Sometimes, they are very lost.
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NotaWalrus
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10/8/2015
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I would think it's somewhat more likely that these animals were named after the authors, to be frank.
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Ignacious, the Fluid Professor, he will accept most social invitations, including boxed cats and affluent photographers (but only betrayals), though he is absent-minded and might take more time than entirely necessary. He apologizes.
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NotaWalrus
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10/8/2015
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Marianne Anders wrote:
@NotaWalrus: In the 'Neath? bodies are fluid and malleable. I mean, I don't think it's any less likely than any of the other weird stuff that comes up re: shapechanging.
@imeja: haha, no worries. I just got out of college with an English Literature degree, there was no way I wasn't going to recognize them.
I was simply applying a bit of Occam's razor, but yes, one never knows in the Neath, it's certainly within the realm of the plausible, of course.
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Ignacious, the Fluid Professor, he will accept most social invitations, including boxed cats and affluent photographers (but only betrayals), though he is absent-minded and might take more time than entirely necessary. He apologizes.
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malthaussen
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10/20/2015
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Not that I've met the eight-armed Mary, but it is rather a common name. She might even be Mrs Shelley's mother, the celebrated Mary Wollstonecraft. This would be even more likely if FL has any apparent nods towards William Godwin; of course there are anarchists and revolutionaries here, but they were a dime a dozen in the Victorian period as well.
And Thomas the Crab, I reckon, could be Tom Paine (we know FL are hip to him), which would make identifying Mary with Wollstonecraft even more witty (but I'm just speculating, I'm nowhere near ready to enter the Labyrinth, even if I knew where it was. )
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