thanks to @kirblys in this post for pointing it out to me but I'm SO intrigued by the "Cain's Jawbone" connection in Threshold so far.
At first I honestly had no idea that the publisher's pseudonym for the book was "Torquemada" (the puzzle book Faroe mentions she's reading), most popularly a reference to Tomás de Torquemada, the first Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition. This was mostly a nod to how difficult the book was to solve, inspiring a kind of "mental torture" in the reader
oh how familiar that concept is
anyways I did initially think it odd how emphasized this puzzle book Faroe is reading was, especially with this line:
I thought that was foreshadowing how Threshold is gonna follow a similar pattern of small peices forming a bigger picture as our detectives peice them together, but I really like this more meta take of the real life book being significant.
I also just wanted to mention but the actual title "Cain's Jawbone" is in itself a nod to this Shakespear quote from Hamlet:
"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder!"
And now I'm curious if the connections to Yorick was intentional, how Kayne was the one who sugested to "give him a mouth". I dont know if that has any other significance I just think it's funny.
yeah super ecited to see if anything more comes from this or of its just a smaller peice of the biggure picture, much like the book itself.
