I'm going to start re-reading tonight. I don't know whether I'll find it a lot different or not.
And in the meantime, even before I start re-reading:
In that sort of coincidence where you don't hear some weird word for years, and then hear it twice in a week - my husband and I sometimes watch lecture podcasts and drink wine at home for a cheap (and lazy) date
, and the lecture he found and wanted to watch a couple of nights ago was about this same siege...