Amycus

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Okay. alt_amycus needs his own discussion: two posts in an evening. And, omg, I'm terrified for alt_terry!

What do you suppose Amycus's "new regimen" lists mean?

I.
4L x 3D
Tx30
CCx4
results marginal

pigeons

II.
4L x 2D
2 pair trousers
5 CC but scattered.

I thought the first one was some sort of list of punishments in code, but "2 pair trousers" doesn't seem to fit. Perhaps he's trying experimental pigeon extermination strategies? But again, "2 pair trousers"? Am I making this harder than it needs to be?

Comments

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

"Min," yes, indeed!

I was interested by McG's reprimand about his writing style: she effectively insists that the journals are a surveillance tool and that he must write understandably in them. (Though why she couches it in terms of students' being able to read and emulate Amycus' writing really does boggle my mind. I'd think the more elliptical the better in that regard, even if it does encourage Pansy and Ron and Sally Anne in their code-talk.)

And Amycus seems to cede McG's point (save for the lists). I wonder, however, if his decision to write about his planned soiree for Terry is the less-submissive portion of his response to McG's insistence on transparency.

[black-dog.livejournal.com]

Maybe two questions: 1. why she spoke up at all, and 2. having chosen to speak up, why she chose to address the issue of his "writing style."

I can imagine she was moved to speak up by at least two things: 1. an irresistible urge to take a shot at him; and 2. a desire to see if she could draw him out, figure out what was going on with boot.

But she has to be careful. She's got three audiences -- Carrow himself, DEs who may be watching, and Order members who may be watching. She's pretty contemptuous toward Carrow, implying pretty directly that he's not sane, but perhaps she can engage him in a sort of game so that he ends up, for whatever whimsical reason of his own, making his intentions clearer. But (facing her DE audience) she has to have a pretext for doing that. She could plausibly be trying to keep a faculty member from embarassing himself, from making too much of a spectacle of himself. And then her ultimate goal (facing the Order) is again, to try to draw Carrow out a little bit, figure out what's on his mind and what's going on with boot.

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. I like all the texture of this answer!