#in castle charles and constance are cousins but the motif of similarity is being similar
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for no reasons, here is the tsh etymological bible of tumblr user barnbridges:
John - John the Evangelist, Richard Papen - Richard Plantagenet, Papen - homophone of paper
Henry - Henry IV (Prince Hal), Henry Jekyll
Edmund/Bunny - Edmund of Glouster, Corcoran - stolen off classics expert Charles Norris Cochrane
Francis - St Francis of Assisi
Charles - Charlemagne, Charles Blackwood
Camilla - warrior in Virgil's Aeneid, superficially Constance Blackwood
Cloke - Invisibility Cloak, fairy tale object and symbolical in-betweener of Richard and Henry
Judy - Book of Judith
Marion - Mary Magdalene, Book of Mary Magdalene, Barnbridge - 1 Timothy 2:5 or a general reference to the nativity story
Julian - Julian the Apostate, Morrow - allure to the timeline fuckery of the novel, homophone of marrow
Mona - homage to Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (Mona "Silverwig" Mars)
Madconald - the fast food chain but also Macbeth
#the secret history#metapost.#henry winter#richard papen#bunny corcoran#francis abernathy#charles macaulay#camilla macaulay#julian morrow#judy poovey#woman of all tIME#i will NOT tag marion and cloke they exist only for ME#but do enjoy#also yes i know chris and cathy but i don't think they were the INTENDED targets#in castle charles and constance are cousins but the motif of similarity is being similar
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