>Jose Marquez wrote: >>Bob wrote: >> >>Perhaps it is an attempt by Paarfi to build suspense on exactly what House >>she was. Blond hair may be unusual but not unhead of, while golden is a >>dead giveaway to the house. > >You mean... Paarfi would actually try to mislead a reader for a brief >time to achieve a literary effect? Say it ain't so... But yet, on the note of another Phoenix, I recall Paarfi referring to Tortaalik as having blond hair, (AFB so it may not have been exactly "blond" but I specifically remember it not being gold and even thinking "huh, not gold")...So maybe gold and "golden blond" are the same thing (as someone suggested before)...Or, perhaps not all Phoenix's have gold hair or gold strands through their hair?...Or maybe the gold is a sorcerous effect?...Or, maybe the gold strands are wove through their hair, and sometimes, pending on how much gold, Draagaereans refer to a Phoenix as having gold hair and at other times blond? (Sort of like "dirty blond" which is sometimes referred to as brown and sometimes blond pending how much brown is in it?)...Or maybe the author wanted break up the continuity and be even more verbose and decided to use "gold" and "blond" and thought his audience would understand that they meant the same thing, that is, if he refers to them interchangeably...Or maybe the author didn't have his morning coffee when he wrote these things and was in an agitated mood and thought "I'll be confusing today, just for the fun of it"? ... Or maybe it is something else entirely which we either a) are not seeing though it is right in front of us, or b) have yet to learn...I think it's probably part "a" of this last remark...Okay, I think I am done with my "or maybe"'s for now, but maybe I will write more if I think of more "or maybe"'s later. ~Holly~ _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 limited-time offer: Join now and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_newmsn8ishere_3mf