Marmee Noir

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I noticed in the last blogflog that someone was wondering what "Marmee Noir" was, and well, that's a valid point.

Here was me thinking that it was some cheesy pulp sub genre of noir fiction - and thinking that Wikipedia had the answer. Alas, no it did not. Google, however, spat out something useful.

Turns out, Barnes & Noble has the answer:

Just as Marmee Noir is the creator of the vampiric civilization in the Anita Blake universe, Hamilton too is the very first of her kind -- and Danse Macabre is a perfect example of her continuing mastery, combining knotty supernatural plotlines with unadulterated eroticism.

I'm...going to ignore the rest of the promo for now. It took me a couple of moments to put it together - but if you say "Marmee Noir" with a really bad, nasal American accent (think Fran Drescher), it sounds like "Mommy Noir" - and that, mes amis, heralds back to the Mother of All Darkness.

WTF? I thought LKH was calling her "Mommy Dearest" for slang, rather than "Marmee Noir"?

Anyway, from the looks of things, Mommy Dearest is back in Danse Macabre and LKH is babbling on about things in the Edward book that nobody outside the publisher and her intimate circle of friends actually knows about, what with the book not being released until later in the year.

Comments

[witchgoddess316.livejournal.com]

I think you're onto something with "Mommy noir"... If LKH's French is off, it could be "ma mère noir" as well.

[http://users.livejournal.com/belladonna_/]

"Marmee" isn't "Mommy" mispronounced - it's what the March girls called their mother in Little Women.

Regardless, "Marmee Noir" is a dumbass name. And hard to say.

[dracoliciousss.livejournal.com]

she may as well just call her the mother of all plot holes.. cause that's where it's gonna end up at this point

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Given that I haven't watched or read Little Women (more because I think I'd rather have concurrent rectal surgery and a root canal without anaesthesia than anything else) I'm gonna take your word for it, because you're the third person to point out the March reference.

Still. What the hell? Marmee and Noir goes together about as well as cheese in a can, or Gweneth Paltrow and that Best Actress Oscar.

I think LKH is gaining on Anne Rice in the crazy stakes.

[http://users.livejournal.com/belladonna_/]

Dude. You should *totally* read Little Women. It's not nearly as twee as it's often made out to be. And it has some of the most well-written, heartrending scenes of any book evar. LKH could learn a lot from Louisa May. Who also wrote sordid Gothic novels to pay the bills before she made it big. And are a fun read!

Also, I am dr0nk.

[caramel-lunacy.livejournal.com]

And it's actually pronounced "mommy" if you think about it. They're up in very much New England. Think about how Bostonians pronounce "park the car" and "Harvard"...

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

I am with the dying, too
or just scratching my eyes out when I read that book - or maybe I should just stop reading that crap ...
please nooo
as long as she didn't put Edward into the category of most powerfull lovers there is still hope,
Please edward shoot them, shoot them allready, shoot them all (or at least anita and JC .... )

[darksongtrilogy.livejournal.com]

No, there's an excellent reason for renaming the Mother of All Darkness something as idiotic as "Marmee Noir." Because LKH made the Mother of Darkness too big and bad for Anita to beat just by screwing someone. Beating the Mother of All Darkness would've required thought, guile, strength...you know, a PLOT. By renaming the Biggest and Baddest "Marmee Noir," LKH makes it stupid and weak enough for Anita to beat through a quick gangbang metaphysical means.

[pandorasblog]

Wow, very Rumplestiltskin - disempowering things by discovering they actually have really dumb names!

Yeesh. I stop reading for a while, and the craziness of LKH evolves another level.