Question About Lullaby

[QUOTE=oldwarpilot;920748]Hey, it wouldn't let me start a topic on the Lullaby board, but I just got done reading it for the 2nd time in 3 years and I have two questions:

1. What was with Streator's foot? It said he had blisters and Mona popped them. But they started saying that stained-glass windows and cathedrals and all kinds od weird shit poured out. I found it very surreal and was wondering what this meant.

2. What was with the couple of chapters where he's a cop, or an enforcement agent of some kind? It was all in italics, but I didn't quite understand what that was all about.

Thanks if anyone can answer this.[/QUOTE] SPOILERS: BEWARE

I just finished [I]Lullaby[/I]. Man, that was really cool. Nate had it regarding the foot. Streator built tiny model buildings, homes, and landscapes. He built one with his wife as a gift for their child. After the death of said child and mother, Streator kept building them just so he could then destroy them. I believe he mentions the feeling of peace, calm, and quiet that he enjoyed while building them. (Something which would obviously be in short supply considering what had just happened to his family.) Then stomping them to pieces represents a cathartic destruction of these tiny versions of the world that Streator believes he is forever broken from in the wake of his tragedy.

I think the sections you mentioned with the cop are actually where Helen and several other characters start switching into other bodies with one of the spells they found in the grimoire. When Streator gets arrested and strip-searched, it's really Helen in the cop's body. But he doesn'f find out until way into the interrogation. Helen, Mona, and Oyster all switch bodies in the last part of the book.

I was so glad to read another Chuck book with as much oomph as [I]Fight Club [/I]or [I]Choke[/I]. I've been reading the books in sort of a weird chronology: First [I]Fight Club[/I], then [I]Choke[/I], [I]Diary[/I], [I]Haunted[/I], [I]Invisible Monsters[/I], and now [I]Lullaby[/I]. It's been sort of an up and down ride. I think some of the books are amazing but a few didn't come off as strong. But Lullaby was fast-paced, direct, and fun as hell. :scool:

Wow. That red type really came out of nowhere!

edit: It disappeared. Oh well...