Oct-26-2010, 06:36 PM (UTC)
I can't STAND it anymore! What's with Fool and apricots? He drinks apricot brandy and then asks for apricots in FF (when Fitz brought him back plums to Aslevjal instead)?!
Are they just something he likes or is there some significance to them? There HAS to be some significance doesn't there, particularly as Fool hadn't had a hunkering for them while at Buckkeep the first time around? As far as I have been able to find, nothing of apricots is mentioned in the Farseer books, let alone connected to Fool.
Amber and Althea shared apricot brandy in LST, as did Fitz and Fool from their very first reunion meeting in the TM series. Fool later mentioned somewhere (I think?) that he'd had the bottles shipped from Bingtown or thereabouts, using his wealth to purchase them as they were ridiculously expensive?
Fitz also liked the brandy, and he and Fool even shared some from a flask while within the Elderling city.
The colour of apricots seemed to fairly well match Amber and Lord Golden's colouring for a while there....maybe that's something?
Fool also always complained of being cold. Maybe he drank the brandy for its spreading warmth, to counteract that cold feeling? Fitz recalls the brandy as "Apricots and the heady warmth of a summer day flooded me."
Did you know there actually is a 'golden amber' type of apricot
?
Are they just something he likes or is there some significance to them? There HAS to be some significance doesn't there, particularly as Fool hadn't had a hunkering for them while at Buckkeep the first time around? As far as I have been able to find, nothing of apricots is mentioned in the Farseer books, let alone connected to Fool.
Amber and Althea shared apricot brandy in LST, as did Fitz and Fool from their very first reunion meeting in the TM series. Fool later mentioned somewhere (I think?) that he'd had the bottles shipped from Bingtown or thereabouts, using his wealth to purchase them as they were ridiculously expensive?
Fitz also liked the brandy, and he and Fool even shared some from a flask while within the Elderling city.
The colour of apricots seemed to fairly well match Amber and Lord Golden's colouring for a while there....maybe that's something?
Fool also always complained of being cold. Maybe he drank the brandy for its spreading warmth, to counteract that cold feeling? Fitz recalls the brandy as "Apricots and the heady warmth of a summer day flooded me."
Did you know there actually is a 'golden amber' type of apricot
?
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