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[astralis]

Random question, for anyone familiar with Pamela Dean's Tam Lin, because I am formulating a theory that I think is going to be wrong, and also because my library's only copy of the book is on loan:



There were two dead girls mentioned in the book, yes? Victoria Thompson and Margaret Roxburgh? Whose books does the Fourth Ericson ghost throw out the windows? Victoria's, yes? From the Thompson collection?

I'm pretty sure that they are Victoria's books, which eliminates the Peg Powell=Margaret Roxburgh theory I came up with this morning. I'm trying to figure out how Peg fits into things. She can't really be a reincarnation, or whatever it is, of Margaret Roxburgh if Margaret was the girl who killed herself when Nora was a student, I suppose. But it would explain Peg's connection to the ghost as well as her attachment to Blackstock: she has to be in at least her second year when Janet and co are freshmen, because she tells Janet about her experiences rooming with Sharon the previous year. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Peg still around in Janet's last year?

Anyway, that was more like six questions. I need to re-read that book.

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[anomilygrace.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that would be interesting.

I think I just assumed that Peg was a member of the Court - she's a Classics major after all. And that her ability to stay for more than four years is just a function of the magic of Blackstock making people forget. That, or, more mundanely, she forgot to fulfill a requirement of some sort. Because she's riding one of the horses in the Court when Janet and Molly see them. I don't remember which colour - brown, I think.

As far as her connection, I was thinking that perhaps the members of the Court were also around when Victoria was. Robin seemed to know her in any case.

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I think Peg is a member of the Court - I just ended off going down a tangent thinking about Nick, Robin and Rob having been Shakespeare's actors, and how Peg couldn't have been because Shakespeare didn't have female actors, and then Margaret Roxburgh popped into my brain somehow and it occured to me that Peg is a derivative of Margaret.

I think Peg's extra year must have been tied up with the forgetting at Blackstock, because no one mentions it like they do with Thomas. Either that, or Pamela Dean simply forgot she'd made Peg a year older than Janet and co. I think I prefer the first option.

I need to get the book out of the library again. I find that every time I read it, everything makes a little more sense. And I just like reading it.