Talk:In the Skin of a Lion
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can someone plz explain to me the meaning of the title of "In the Skin of a Lion" thx
Well I think the title "In the Skin of a Lion" is actually making a reference to being in anothers shoes. We tend to generally look at the lion as a creature of evil, something that acts without thinking. I believe that the Lion referes to all the characters in the book. Maybe even the city of Toronto itself, the title is telling us to try and look at the city a different way, to see what the characters see and how they see the city. So in order to do so, we must step into their skins, or in this case into the skin of a lion.
But that's just my opinion Alex
--It's a direct quote from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The entire novel is based around the Epic. You should read it if you're studying ITSOAL, find the similarities. 203.129.54.191
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[edit] Vocabulary:
(this was a section that was deleted. I am moving it here for the benefit of anyone who wishes to discuss its inclusion in the article. --BostonMA 01:31, 21 September 2006 (UTC))
- discernible pg.7
- holsteins pg.7
- minute pg.10
- brown mulleins pg.13
- flof pg.14
- acreage pg.15
- powdered cordite pg.18
- metriculous pg.19
- taciturn pg.19
- benign pg.21
- porous pg.27
- creosote pg.30
- vista pg.34
- mezzanine pg.43
- spontaneity pg.47
- recluse pg.47
- supine pg.49
- feldspar pg.74
- destitution pg.82
- maudlin pg.132
- abattoi pg.135
- tannery pg.135
- crinoline pg.150
- pelmanism pg.189
- bereaved pg.202
- semen pg.204
- bivouaced pg.220
[edit] Summary of the whole book
...by Abhinav Kanaya
o_O Fix'd. Some wikifying still needs to be done, I think. Terras 20:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Notes for book 1
[edit] LITTLE SEEDS
~ Geography book... Caspian, Nepal and Durango. ~ Patrick has a father. ~ Riverdale library. ~ Double-ocarina from his pocket. ~ Do the Insects return nightly to show him something? Or does he haunt them? ~ Depot Creek/ 'Deep Eau' ~ Hazen Lewis ~ Both tie the rope around the cow and help it out of the water ~ Rathbun Timber Headquarters to show idea of dynamite explosion ~ H.L. worked around Verona and Godfrey ~ April - melting of the lake ~ Patrick absorbed everything from a distace. ~ Patrick(11) went after a rare blue moth in winter ~ Patrick wants to join a group of loggers who are skating on the ice, but does not trust himself or them in the end.
[edit] THE BRIDGE
~ The bridge links the east with the centre of the city and will carry traffic, water and electricity across the Don Valley ~ 4000 photographs from various angles of the bridge. 45,000 cubic yards of earth are excavated ~ Prince Edward bridge.The Bloor Street Viaduct ~ Rowland Harris is the commissioner of Public works ~ Pomphrey-an architect from England who would also design the city's grandest building called the water filtration plant. ~ Water was Harris's biggest passion ~ Ingersoll-Rand air compressors and cables ~ 5 Nuns walk on the unfinished bridge and one falls off the bridge ~ Nicholas Temelcoff saves the Nun ~ He takes her to a restaurant called 'Ohrida Lake'. Offers her brandy ~ Temelcoff is famous on the bridge since he does the most dangerous jobs ~ He earns $1 a day and $1.25 at night ~ Kosta is the owner of the restaurant. ~ Nicholas likes being near the Nun and he tells her about the various scars he had got ~ Both get to like each other ~ Travellers can lift about 12 tons ~ Alicia was the parrot in the restaurant ~ Nicholas makes weird gestures without noticing that people are watching him ~ He sings to himself and doesn't bother about other conversations going on ~ Daniel Stoyanoff had tempted them all ~ Dedora was the tailor who stitched Daniels arm ~ Nicholas rode on the boat 'La Siciliana' ~ Learnt English in school while working at night ~ Wakes up from his dream and a doctor is treating his arm ~ The nun has disappeared ~ Nicholas wants to open a bakery with the money he has saved ~
[edit] THE SEARCHER
~ Patrick's childhood letters were all that remained with him ~ Union Train Station ~ Ambrose Small is a millionaire who is missing ~ Bertillon record measurements ~ Small bought the Grand Opera Theatre at age 28 ~ Small married Theresa Kormann and then fell in love with actress Clara Dickens ~ The Press called Small a 'Jackal' ~ Patrick meets Clara Dickens ~ Patrick tries to seduce Clara, but she does it ~ Small gifted Clara a car, Patrick thought ~ Clara drops Patrick back to the Arlington hotel ~ They set off toghether for a few days towards the Paris Plains to Clara's friend's farmhouse. ~ Alice is Clara's friend ~ Clara fell in love aged 16 with a boy named Stump Jones ~ Patrick has a dream of Small asking him to cut off the grey peacock from his back and he does it with a penknife ~ Romance ~ Patrick hears about her history and about Small. How the 'Cayuga' day ferry was where they fucked ~ Clara was the pianist and Briffa was Small's friend ~ Patrick tells his history ~ Clara tells Patrick about how she and her father shaved their dogs and numbered them incase the hunters stole their dogs. ~ Both their fathers had died. Clara's when she was 15 ~ Clara and Alice talk into the night until Patrick goes off to bed. ~ Alice and Clara draw his portrait as he sleeps ~ Patrick eats a Grapefruit and leaves for his train ~ Patrick says he liked Alice when asked by Clara and apreciates their art ~ Clara states that Alice is a way better actress than her on stage ~ Clara tells Patrick not to follow her as she goes to Ambrose Small. ~ Patrick blindfolds himself and does Extraordinary things that shocks Clara ~ Patrick lives on Queen Street ~ He reads a novel called 'Wild Geese' and remembers his old memories with Clara ~ Clara left a blind Iguana with him ~ Patrick writes many letters to Clara ~ Caravaggio-the neighbourhood thief ~ Patrick has a weird dream about getting beaten up as he tries to look at Clara ~ Alice visits Patrick unexpectedly. She tells him to go and look for Clara ~ Patrick has dinner with Clara's mother. She tells him that Stump Jones and Clara actually married and divorced ~ Patrick finds out where Clara is, because of the hint her mother gave him. ~ Small and Patrick talk. Small spills drops of kerosene on Patrick and sets him on fire. ~ Patrick bathes himself in the river when an explosion takes place. Patrick cuts Small on the arm. ~ Clara meets with Patrick and bathes his cuts ~ Patrick finds spots of blood on the sheets ~
Notes for book 2
[edit] PALACE OF PURIFICATION
~ Lake Ontario ~ Arthur Goss is the city photographer ~ Barrels of Liquid mud ~ It is 1930 ~ Patrick, along with the other workers, is digging up underneath the lake. It is a mad scheme by Commissioner Rowland Harris ~ Patrick dynamites the rock. Uses his father's skills ~ The Waterworks are being built on the old Victoria Park Forest. ~ Patrick still has the Iguana Clara gave him. He stays in an apartment building called 'Wyatt' ~ R.Harris's dream is to create a Palace of Water. He stays in Neville Park Boulevard ~ Patrick ate most of his meals at the Thompson Grill on River Street ~ Patrick likes the waitress in Thompson Grill. Admires her ~ "Gooshter" is the Macedonian word for Iguana ~ Patrick felt ashamed to how the Macedonians knew so little about him ~ Patrick weeps in front of them ~ Clover and Vetch is what the Iguana ate. Elena gave Patrick Vetches for a year ~ Cabbage Rolls - 'sarmi' ~ Kosta also works with dynamite ~ Kosta invites Patrick to a gathering where various nationalities meet and ilegally discuss politics and have fun ~ A performance of puppets where there is a lady performing as a puppet ~ The whole croud was with her ~ It was Alice Gull ~ Patrick and Alice argue over who had killed Hana's father. Patrick stopped Alice in this performance ~ Hana is a 9 year old girl staying with Alice, who is her mother ~ Cato was Alice's husband ~ Patrick remembers old conversations ~ Through Alice and her contacts did Patrick get a new job ~ Patrick could not stop thinking of her ~ Each man was allowed a 10 second wash ~ A cigarette would relieve or purify them ~ Alice tells Patrick about the rich. Both are at Kosta's place ~ Both like Joseph Conrad. He writes scenes actors dream about ~ Patrick and the rest of the workers go for a Sauna for a quarter ~ Hana was similar to Alice ~ Patrick was to shy to embrace her ~ They watched a Chaplin movie, went to a bakery called 'Geranium Bakery' where Patrick meets Nicholas Temelkoff. ~ 'Piko' was Hana's nickname when she was 3 ~ Cato was not his real name ~ Hana's favourite story was about Cato and the socks ~ Patrick was in Riverdale library looking at Commissioner Harris's bridge construction that took 2 years to complete ~ He thinks about how Cato and Hana with their relation at the bakery. He thinks about Alice, if she was a nun ~ Lewis Hine was a US child labour photographist ~ The three of them play some game ~ Hana loves Clara for the help she gave her ~ Patrick goes to visit Nicholas Temelkoff and ask him about his rescue of the nun ~ Cato would always arrive late ~ Alice and Cato kept Thursdays for themselves ~ Patrick reads Cato's letters and tries to find connections ~ Patrick says he wants to look after Hana ~ Patrick is in deep love with Alice ~
[edit] REMORSE
~ Scar on Alice's face ~ Alice was happiest when she was pregnant ~ Patrick is travelling to his new job past Huntsville. He then boards the Algonquin steamer ~ Explosion in Muskoka Hotel by Patrick ~ Patrick meets a blind woman called Elizabeth ~ Alice is dead ~ Patrick swims onto a boat and eats hungrily. He knows he will be caught by the police ~
Notes for book 3
[edit] CARRAVAGGIO
~ Three prisoners, Buck, Lewis and Caravaggio are painting the roof of the jail. Patrick and Buck paint Caravaggio blue so that no one can see him ~ He breaks into a clothing store at night and changes there. Later, he hops onto a milk-train ~ He is in Trenton. Meets a boy named Alfred who helps him scrub of the paint on his face with turpentine ~ Caravaggio survives on bits of chocolate Al gave him ~ Has a familiar nightmare ~ Meets Anne, his 'neighbour' ~ Caravaggio spent many restless nights in his jail cell. Patrick and Caravaggio talk. ~ Russet was Caravaggio's 'Red' dog who let him down ~ During his first robbery, he cracked his ankle. Stole a painting. He then hides in a mushroom factory and a young woman called Giannetta helps him by bringing him chicken. Then she and her friends help him escape by dressing him as a woman ~ Caravaggio calls his wife from Anne's cottage ~ Caravaggio returns to Giannetta, his wife ~
[edit] MARITIME THEATRE
~ Patrick is released from prison ~ Goes to the Geranium Bakery and embraces Nicholas Temelkoff. Meets Hana ~ Small tells Clara of all about what he has done in the past before he died ~ Clara calls Patrick from Marmora. Ambrose Small is dead ~ She is calling from a restaurant ~ Hana and Patrick will go and pick her up ~ Harris has tight security for the Waterworks. He says anyone can poison the city or cut the supply of water ~ Caravaggio introduces Patrick to his wife ~ They sail on their yacht, 'The Annalisa' ~ They three chloroform the husband and the wife ~ Patrick is going to dynamite the Filtration Plant, in the Waterworks with the help of Caravaggio ~ Patrick drops his wire-cutters ~ Harris hears a thump ~ Patrick has set explosives everywhere. He goes into Harris's office ~ Alice Gull was killed by an 'anarchist' She carried the wrong bag with dynamite. ~ Patrick falls asleep. A nurse tends to him ~ Patrick was dreaming. He goes with Hana to get Clara ~
[edit] Deletion of "Vocabulary" and "Summary of the whole book"
I am the user who deleted the above section. The "Vocabulary" I found to be a random list of words - some in common usage, some not - intended, I assumed, as something of a teaching aid. I question the presence of such a list in an encycopedia and add that page references for a novel that been through numerous English-language editions in at least three countries are not likely to be of use. Abhinav Kanaya's "Summary of the whole book" is, at best, unencyclopedic.Victoriagirl 01:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
- I note that the deleted sections have been reintroduced under different section titles ("Vocabulary" under "Awards and recognition" and "Summary of the whole book" as "Notes On each Chapter"). As I don't want to participate in an edit war, I welcome discussion on this matter. My opinions, as stated above, remain unchanged. Victoriagirl 23:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Where can i find others who delete my work?? .. i understand your explanation is your opinion in the matter, but it is not irrelevant. Have u read the book?? 572766 16:56, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
- There is a history tab at the top of all pages, that shows the history the edits that have been made to that page. For each edit it lists the editor who made the change, and the edit summary that was made with the change. You will note that I removed your second insertion of your edits, with an edit summary that said that your edits needed to be discussed on the talk page. Sincerely, --BostonMA 17:02, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Hi Abhinav, your new edits are much better than your original. However, I think they will be too extensive, too much detail when complete. Please try to make your summary more succinct. Thanks. --BostonMA 17:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
K i did that... cut out many words. It is short and brief. Will do the rest later. Thnx 572766 18:30, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
In the interest of clarity, and in an effort to avoid repetition, I am responding here to 572766's above comment (directed at myself) and his most recent post [1] at User talk:Victoriagirl. At no point in my discussion of this topic, nor in my communication with the user [2], have I described his work as "irrelevant"; indeed I recognize its relevance to his classmates and have provided a suggestion as to where this material might be posted.[3] My issue with the user's past work was that it was unencyclopedic in nature. I know of no article on a novel in which a vocabulary is provided, nor am I aware of a synopsis in which sentences are not employed. That I have read the book in question has no relevance; the decision to remove the material had everything to do with my understanding of what Wikipedia is and what it is not. Again, I ask that the user not make personal attacks. Victoriagirl 18:42, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
This is probably the worst entry I have seen on wikipedia. Many thanks to the edits.
