TFv04 CH 09 EDS (annotated)

Annotations for EDS of Hades.

## Page 220

**Monongahela National Forest, Durbin**

West Virginia

**EDS**

Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) is a group of genetic connective
tissue disorders. Symptoms can vary from mildly loose joints to
life-threatening complications such as aortic dissection. Classic Type – skin
involvement (hyperelasticity) and is similar to Hypermobile type, involving
joint hypermobility

**Eisa and Leisl**

name change – in V3 it was Elsa and Liesl

Edit: this is incorrect. A check of Volume 3 confirms that "Eisa" was always the name.

## Page 221

**christmas circle, Jerry and Nicole, Carsons**

Christmas Circle. This is a community park in Borrego Springs, CA, which
 is where Cas's house is located and where Recluse was during their call

**Tom Collins**

is a Collins cocktail made from gin, lemon juice, sugar, and
carbonated water.

## Page 228

**Big Sleep**

Novel by Raymond Chandler, suggested reading for Volume 1.The title means death.

**less than a year**

one year window, probably reffering to the time the Orb user
can scry

## Page 229

**more than 40**

how far into past (and future?) can Cas see?

## Page 230

**nuncupative**

declared orally as opposed to in writing, especially by a
mortally wounded soldier or sailor.

**scorpion grass**

forget-me-not

## Page 231

**Atropos**

or Aisa (Ἄτροπος "without turn"), in Greek
mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny. Atropos
was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the "inflexible"
or "inevitable." It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and
ended the life of mortals by cutting their thread with her "abhorred
shears."

## Page 233

**sipaapuni**

the holiest of Hopi religious shrines where, acording to
Hopi mythology, the ancestors of Hopi as well as the rest of humankind emerged
from third world (underworld) into this upper fourth world. Sipapu is generally
agreed to have a defined location, that location being no other the Grand
Canyon. The Sipapu is also believed to be where spirits return to the spirit
world, and where things from the spirit world come through to our world. Sipapu
can be represented with a symbol. The Tapuat, this symbol also represents
Mother and child. The Tapuat is a labyrinth.

## Page 237

**clips changing**

like the names between volumes? Like
Minecraft/Mindcraft?

## Page 238

**What sorcery’s this?**

evokes What miracle is this? (House of Leaves – Yggdrasil)

## Page 239

**Cemetery Ridge**

is a geographic feature in Gettysburg National Military
Park, south of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that figured prominently
in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to July 3, 1863 (Wikipedia)

## Page 240

**Pickett**

George Edward Pickett (January 16,[1] 1825 – July 30, 1875)
was a career United States Army officer who became a major general in the
Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered
for his participation in the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the
third day of the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge

## Readers Guide Questions

***The word “clip” appears throughout TFv4—as the vignettes Cas views in the orb (pp. 235-238), as the video of the lioness running at Xanther (pp. 142, 211), and as the part of a gun that holds rounds of ammunition (p. 120). What are the similarities among these different kinds of clips? How do video clips circulate in this novel? How and where do guns appear in the different narratives?***