[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

As I understand it, it's kind of a soft curse, the same way Harry sighs "Hell's Bells".
I think its a White Court expression.
(Hi everyone, figured I'd lurked long enough . )

Mhh "soft curse". Interesting. It always sounds so innocent. Every time nothing happens. But then, it might just as bad as nothing good or useful happend. Next time I ask sooner. This has been bugging me for quite a few books now. Right now in Changes almost done - big battle going to start soon ...

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

Congrats on de-lurking and joining the party!

I catch myself saying "stars and stones". I think I recall hearing a rumor of some sort that the "end trilogy" is supposed to be titled after the three phrases we're discussing here. Alan?

Three. Three? Three! I see where that is going. I think Jim tries to pull our leg with three. He already mentioned the closing needs to be three, as in trilogy.

Spoiler:

There is three swords. Why not four? Last I checked Jesus had four limbs to get nailed - but then maybe they saved a nail by combining the feet. Another three in worlds: Normal (mainly physical), Never Never (half-mortal spiritural), Never World (immune to mortal ??). We always see three generations - very seldom do we see four alive. Many parents are dead. Grandparents are also dead or non-existant. Old-mentor - old apprentice == new mentor - new apprentice. Once the apprentice takes on a new charge, their mentor's mentor is already gone. Jason dead, McCoy's mentor dead (it is never said directly, but he got inherited the books of his past mentors up to the real Merlin). With the longegivity of Wizards, why not see 4 generations alive?

There is probably more to three than springs to my mind right now. In the end, it is probably all wrong ...

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I just say f'ing hell when I get pissed at something. You can guess what the proper spelling is of the first word.

Well, but then, the language used by Jim is always pretty clean. The bad comes in without much cursing needed (not in a sense that we understand cursing).