I agree, Aunt Margaret here was wonderful; I'm glad we got to spend more time with her.
I am as confused as you by whatever Ewen thought he understood in his almost-a-dream about the twisted threads. I presume this is equivalent to when I have a great plot idea for a story while falling asleep and spend an hour trying to recover whatever-it-was in the morning. Of course it almost always turns out in the morning to be unusable nonsense, rather than the poignant moment of profound beauty that sleepy-brain thought it was.
Seconding osprey_archer, your story idea in rot13 is wonderful. And ghosts do fit well into this world -- there was also the bit in last week's reading about Ewen wondering if he was dead and a ghost when Aunt Margaret didn't immediately look up from her reading when he came into the room, which made me think there was a story there, too.
Speaking of all the otherworldly things in these chapters -- we got at least three more prophecies from Angus! There was also the bit with Alison speaking to Ewen in a dream about her loneliness. It's left ambiguous as to whether it's purely a dream or not, but I rather read it as Mr Rochester calling calling to Jane across the moor in his loneliness. Every once in a while I wonder if Ewen has a tiny bit of the sight -- or would have, if he didn't automatically reject out of hand every vision and prophecy that comes to him.
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I am as confused as you by whatever Ewen thought he understood in his almost-a-dream about the twisted threads. I presume this is equivalent to when I have a great plot idea for a story while falling asleep and spend an hour trying to recover whatever-it-was in the morning. Of course it almost always turns out in the morning to be unusable nonsense, rather than the poignant moment of profound beauty that sleepy-brain thought it was.
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Speaking of all the otherworldly things in these chapters -- we got at least three more prophecies from Angus! There was also the bit with Alison speaking to Ewen in a dream about her loneliness. It's left ambiguous as to whether it's purely a dream or not, but I rather read it as Mr Rochester calling calling to Jane across the moor in his loneliness. Every once in a while I wonder if Ewen has a tiny bit of the sight -- or would have, if he didn't automatically reject out of hand every vision and prophecy that comes to him.