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FORKNI-L Digest - 3 Dec 2001 to 4 Dec 2001 (#2001-363)

Tue, 4 Dec 2001

There are 12 messages totalling 313 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. book of possible interest
  2. Nick Knight DVD finding.... (2)
  3. YKYBR/WTMFKW... (4)
  4. Address change and webpages
  5. The name LaCroix (2)
  6. Webpage links
  7. WWLCD?

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:56:39 -0600
From:    "Monica T. Rodriguez" <mrodri14@u.......>
Subject: book of possible interest

I've been meaning to post this for quite a while.  While searching the
shelves of a bookstore I came across a book that made me think of this list
immediately, more likely any cousins that have taken an interest in
anything Roman or Pompeiian, after our interest in our favorite general.  I
couldn't resist writing down this title"

Pompeis Difficile Est: Studies in the Political Life of Imperial Pompeii
by James L. Franklin, Jr.

If anyone does happen to read it, I'd love to know what you think!
(unfortunately that's not on my reading list :-( ).

back to lurking,

monica
always luscious lucius lover

"When you have a friend in the Nightcrawler, who needs enemies?"

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:47:51 -0600
From:    katrinka <katrinka@f.......>
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

Okay, got me one.  Got Nick Knight on dvd!
Gonna watch it. thanks LIBS!
Can't wait!
Now if they could only put the REAL nick on dvd!

McLisa, please forgive me for this.
Hey, anyone with a big lots, who is looking for the dvd's can you do me a
favor?
They are also selling in that sale little rascals dvd's.
I am in big need of two of the dvd's. Little rascals  Volumes 1&2 and
Little rascals  volumes 3&4.
They put two volumes on each dvd. If someone please sees those, can they
pick them up for me?
I promise to pay you! Mine didn't have them, and I'll beg, plead and
promise to be Nicer to the Cousins next war if I can find copies!
Katrinka@f.......
AIM KatrinkaKnighties

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:56:55 -0800
From:    Emily <emilymhanson@y.......>
Subject: YKYBR/WTMFKW...

You know you've been reading/watching too much Forever Knight when
you're reading the first 3 Harry Potter books for the first time
(after having seen the movie), you can't help but notice that one of
the characters' names is Lucius and that he also has light-colored
hair and is almost as conniving as LaCroix.  You also wonder if
there's any connection between the two...or at least, if JK Rowling
had seen FK before writing the series!

:)

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Emily M. Hanson
Home page - http://www.starbase-eprime.com
Web Graphics - http://www.galaxyofimages.com

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:44:25 EST
From:    Rexjdk@a.......
Subject: Re: Nick Knight DVD finding....

I just won myself a copy of it on ebay.

Jen

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:29:23 -0800
From:    Lady Ariake <lady_ariake@y.......>
Subject: Re: YKYBR/WTMFKW...

--- Emily <emilymhanson@y.......> wrote:
), you can't help but notice that one of
> the characters' names is Lucius and that he also has
> light-colored hair

Lol..the similarity occurred to me, but I think it's
related in a different way--Rowling seems to have fun
giving characters names that mean something (Remus
Lupin and Sirius Black are other examples), whether
ironic or telling.  "Lucius" means "bringer of light."
  In both Malfoy's and LaCroix's case, it's
phenomenally inappropriate.  I'm not sure that the
naming process for FK was quite as pointed as
Rowlings's, though.  It crops up a lot as a name in
Roman texts and in fictional works based on Rome (one
of the rich patrician friends of Steven Saylor's
Gordianus the Finder is Lucius Claudius) and they may
have just liked the sound.  When did we find out that
it was his real name, anyway, as he now seems to go
almost exclusively by Lucien?

And an FK question for the better informed: where the
heck did he get the surname "La Croix?"  My
high-school French is very rusty *sound of creaking
hinges* but doesn't that mean "cross?"  Is he just
being sarcastic?


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"If you're going to have delusions of grandeur, go for the really satisfying
ones."  (Marcus Cole, Anla'shok, or my life motto.)

"...In all things trust the Weyrfolk, for their cause is just and true."

http://www.geocities.com/northrangesweyr

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Date:    Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:20:47 -0800
From:    Victor Roscetti <dragonslair_08060@y.......>
Subject: Re: Address change and webpages

Hi Nancy,

    I got the e-mail with the address change! Hope
everything's ok there. Has it snowed? We're actually
getting a warm spell, it's been 60's and up to 73 here
the last week, today it was cold but it's supposed to
get warm again! Wow, It should be snowing! Bye for
now, hope you have a good holiday!  We're trying to
get the tapes/CD out soon!

            Bye, Vic

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:55:27 -0500
From:    Tim Phillips <Timp@d.......>
Subject: Re: YKYBR/WTMFKW...

> And an FK question for the better informed: where the
> heck did he get the surname "La Croix?"  My
> high-school French is very rusty *sound of creaking
> hinges* but doesn't that mean "cross?"  Is he just
> being sarcastic?
From a dramatic perspective, I believe that you could argue that
Lucien is The Cross that Nicholas must bear.  Whether anyone
was thinking that symbolically when they were creating names....?

                Tim
 Tim Phillips
 timp@d.......

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:31:34 -0500
From:    Lisa McDavid <mclisa@m.......>
Subject: The name LaCroix

> And an FK question for the better informed: where the
> heck did he get the surname "La Croix

Yes, it does mean "the cross," and yes, it is a French surname, just as "Cross"
is in English. (French surnames usually take the definite article where English
doesn't.) Both come usually come from residence at or near a cross like the ones
in the marketplace or at a shrine.

We never knew for sure why the character was named LaCroix. Nigel said at a con
that he must have picked it himself as a sick joke. As a Cousin, I have to say
that sounds like Uncle. :)

I have been told that there is a voodoo entity called LaCroix, a variant of
Baron Samedi, the death loa. (I'm doing this from memory. Anyone with a fuller
knowledge of Voudun -- the preferred modern spelling -- please correct me.)  If
that's so, it's possible that this is the source. The Michael Nader LaCroix in
Nick Knight certainly looks like the traditional depictions of Baron Samedi.

Or maybe LC is the source for Baron Samedi! <g> Fanfic, anyone?

McLisa
mclisa@m.......

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 08:11:31 -0800
From:    "Nancy A. Taylor" <nat1228@a.......>
Subject: Webpage links

After getting a few requests for links to my pages that are still up, I've
decided to upload my index page to Tripod. From this site, you can reach
all my pages, including the vidcap archives, that were not housed on @h........
The URLs are still there for the @h....... pages, but they won't work yet.

http://nat1228.tripod.com/index.htm

Hope this helps.

Nancy

Nancy Taylor   --   nat1228@a.......
Knightie/N&NPack/UF/GWDFC
http://members.home.net/nat1228/fk.htm
"The first hundred years are the hardest."
    --Wilson Mizner

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 09:59:01 -0700
From:    Rose Thatcher <dreamerextrodanar@h.......>
Subject: Re: WWLCD?

chris thatcher wrote:
>she told
>me that whenever she had had trouble in school, she
>would just think about how LC would take it.  he'd
>laugh it off, realizing that it just wasn't that
>important in the eternal scheme of things.

Actually, I picutred him sniffing and whimpering over a bad grade or a mean
teacher, and the picture was *so* hilarious, that I would instantly bust up
laughing, and feel better. <G>
                     'Rose

Rome was not built by holding committe meetings.  It was done by killing all
those who opposed them.

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 11:04:51 -0700
From:    Megan Hull <mistryder@h.......>
Subject: Re: YKYBR/WTMFKW...

>you can't help but notice that one of the characters' names is Lucius and
> >that he also has light-colored hair and is almost as conniving as
> >LaCroix.  You also wonder if there's any connection between the two...or
> >at least, if JK Rowling had seen FK before writing the series!

Hah!  My reaction exactly!!!!  Has anyone thought to ask her?  :)
              -Megan

"Eternal nights too short,
How quickly melt away,
With all the love we shared once,
Forever in a day."

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Date:    Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:24:01 -0800
From:    "K. C. Smith" <tigrlady2u@j.......>
Subject: Re: The name LaCroix

I always assumed it had something to do with him being a Roman general.
The Roman soldiers were notorious for hanging people on crosses.

And didn't we find out that his name was actually Lucius in 'A More
Permanent Hell'?  I think that is the first time it was referenced to.

KC Smith (who's feeling *much* better, but still has her cold)
tigrlady2u@j.......
"I've never met a chocolate I didn't like."

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