the chap

[brandon]

Ok I hope ya'll will forgive a little rant but I gotta get it off my chest. Sai King always refers to Mia/Sussannah's child as the "chap" Am I the only one who finds this more than slightly irritating? While I know that "chap" is a term of endearment I have never heard it used in any but the most offhand of ways.... i.e. "Dr. watson is a steady chap and no doubt, but lacking in deductive ability" (not a direct quote, but I'm sure the point is made). What I am getting at is the child seems to be minimized by the moniker. No mother, whether bearing the Christ child or the antichrist would refer to something so significant to her in this way, if ya kennit. I know it is the authors license to do as he pleases, but I feel he missed the mark here. Thoughts?

[Bryan James]

Defense mechanism by Susannah even when she was not herself. I thought "the chap" was a great moniker.

[coolambindang]

I think you are way off base here, lol, but just my opinion, I think that it is endearing because Mia was a creation that was not sure what she was. But she seemed to know her way around her castle, Discordia, and had her own particular way of talking. Perhaps if Mia was a person she would have come from people who also talked in a particular way with all their strange sayings!

[wally wonder]

in school, gregg called this kid from england, "the chap". derogatory. that's what i thought about when i read the words for the first time. thought it was odd, but that's sk's world. picked up the gunslinger at a bookstore and thought, gunslinger? sk? whaaaa? try to anticipate what comes next? forget it. anyway, she was consistent in the use of "the chap" and by there was no derogatory connotations in it for me. irritating? yeah, that might have been present for a moment or two, passed, by the time i'd read the phrase enough. "chap" fits, the way he liked to eat, no? some old definitons: to buy, to buy and sell. which is what happened, no? "to bargain, or deal for a price." chap. also the two bones that form the mouth? eeeew. back to his eating again. thinking spider mandibles. do spiders have mandibles? nother word look.

i'd say the word fits with the rest of the dark tower, all those other words he created, along with the other stuff word-related.

[brandon]

Defense mechanism by Susannah even when she was not herself. I thought "the chap" was a great moniker.

Great thought Dr. Fudd and I had never considered this. Perhaps you are are on base here. Thanks!

[brandon]

I think you are way off base here, lol, but just my opinion, I think that it is endearing because Mia was a creation that was not sure what she was. But she seemed to know her way around her castle, Discordia, and had her own particular way of talking. Perhaps if Mia was a person she would have come from people who also talked in a particular way with all their strange sayings!
Perhaps you too have a point here, but I havent gotten far enough into SOS to be able to respond properly. I first heard this term in "wolves" and am only about 250 pages into "song' and have been curious as to the true nature of mia. everything thus far just doesnt add up so I look forward to to the "real" answers. Thanks for the input!