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Offline Second Aristh

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Re: So just what the heck is a Habble?
« Reply #30 on: January 11, 2016, 03:01:23 AM »
Quote from: tig1977 on December 20, 2015, 08:22:15 AM
That's a great explanation, but where does it come from? I'm 3/4 through the book and just plain got tired of not knowing what spire, habble, and batman means. I've read and loved every Jim Butcher book so far, I find it odd and frustrating that he would leave the reader clueless like this.
A batman is a military aide, not something specific to the Cinder Spires world.
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Re: So just what the heck is a Habble?
« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2016, 03:38:24 PM »
Yeah, they actually made a joke about the original meaning of batman, the one being used in TAW, in Cold Days, when Cat Sith was assigned as Harry's batman.
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Re: So just what the heck is a Habble?
« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2016, 11:26:42 PM »
BTW - "Arch" in this case would mean "ruler", from the Greek "arkhi". Think "monarch" and "anarchy".
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« Reply #33 on: April 15, 2017, 12:03:45 PM »
I made it over halfway through before I got fed up with it and just kept thinking "Get on with the goddamn book already."
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