Friday 17 February 2023

"Witch!"

The Peregrine, CHAPTER XIII.

The Peregrine shudders in a trepidation vortex, the sort of thing that happens to the Enterprise. Peregrine Abbey Roberto attacks Ilaloa with a knife, snarling:

"'Witch! Damned murdering witch, you did this!" (p. 112)

Maybe Abbey is prejudiced and deluded or maybe he senses Ilaloa's true nature. Either way, what he says is correct. She did this. We should reflect on this when rereading the novel.

After the vortex:

"The park was a heap of windowed trees..." (p. 118)

Windowed?

"'Your people rally well,' said Joachim..." (ibid.)

Shouldn't it be Trevelyan saying that?

2 comments:

Jim Baerg said...

Perhaps windowed is a typo for windrowed.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Praps.