Marshall, or Marshall of France, though that's a position as much as a name - but that counts too. Likewise, M. l'Ambassadeur. There's even the overt fact - so obvious it's in the first line of the first book - that while his name is "Francis Crawford", he is most often called "Lymond" by the author.
"My lord. Jesus. Sir." "'Sir' will do, until we have divine witness to the contrary."
Or: "What do you want to be called?" "Home, like the cattle?"
I always like the 'scented onion' line because it can be taken at all sorts of levels - for one thing, he's got many layers himself. For another, the 'scent' can be taking as the artifices he uses to influence people.
And the line "He had signed it, as he so seldom did, with his Christian name" always chokes me up. Do you remember that bit? It's Lymond's letter to Kate in PF that begins, "She is with me, and safe. You know what she feels her mission to be...." I love that so much: one of our rare glimpses of Lymond without just being himself, on paper. Witty but honest. (And just a little apologetic because he knows Kate will be throwing fits and he needs to reassure her. Guiltily.)
I'm also thinking of MCR becoming The Black Parade.
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Date: 2008-10-17 02:53 pm (UTC)Marshall, or Marshall of France, though that's a position as much as a name - but that counts too. Likewise, M. l'Ambassadeur. There's even the overt fact - so obvious it's in the first line of the first book - that while his name is "Francis Crawford", he is most often called "Lymond" by the author.
"My lord. Jesus. Sir."
"'Sir' will do, until we have divine witness to the contrary."
Or:
"What do you want to be called?"
"Home, like the cattle?"
I always like the 'scented onion' line because it can be taken at all sorts of levels - for one thing, he's got many layers himself. For another, the 'scent' can be taking as the artifices he uses to influence people.
And the line "He had signed it, as he so seldom did, with his Christian name" always chokes me up. Do you remember that bit? It's Lymond's letter to Kate in PF that begins, "She is with me, and safe. You know what she feels her mission to be...." I love that so much: one of our rare glimpses of Lymond without just being himself, on paper. Witty but honest. (And just a little apologetic because he knows Kate will be throwing fits and he needs to reassure her. Guiltily.)
I'm also thinking of MCR becoming The Black Parade.
Ooh, yes, of course! Good catch.