Marmee Noir

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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.

[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.