ooooo it's nearly time for the big showdown - I can *feel* it. Great new page Colby.

So, he's in his mother's room?

Urgh. "Quite twistedly oedipal" is right. : P

I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next. : o

yay! i really needed this this week! :) i'm so excited,yet scared....

Ruh roh.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... Al'bert is such a dork :P

al'bert is so sexy!

there 'have' to be 100 rooms in this castle, i think.

agreed...we are approaching showdown time. so exciting!

Is it? Because the verb is pointing to "a hundred" which, even though it's talking about multiple things as a noun it's a singular unit. Right? Or is it pointing to "rooms"? No, I think you're right. Somebody else figure this out, because I'm confused!

But there [V-has to be] a hundred {S-rooms} (prep-in this castle.)

There has to be...what? A hundred? A hundred what? A hundred rooms.

So...it should be....

But there have to be a hundred rooms in this castle!

Because 'have to be' is the verb, and the subject is 'rooms' which is plural, so it should be 'have'.

Whoot, I actually remembered something from English class. XD

You are so right! I should have remembered that from teaching my kids English last year, but well... I don't have much of a brain lately. Fixed! (Thanks spas & LN)

Actually, the noun phrase "a hundred rooms" is the *notional* subject (with "rooms" as the head of the NP, "a" as the article and "hundred" as quantifier) and "There" is the subject proper, but you are right in that the finite verb should concord with "rooms". However, in spoken English Longman notes that the finite verb is likely to be in singular. So both ways work. Hooray for grammar.

... and knowing is half the battle.

I love how excessively educational things show up in my comments section from time to time.

CURSE GRAMMAR!!

Just kidding. XD Education is good. ^_^

3 at a time is only beyond his ability coz he can't handle all the "fangirlism" XD

ALSO! *busts out dictionary to look up oedipal* >.>

i still don't understand...why is the answer "oedipal"? from what i can find, oedipal is pertaining to the Oedipus complex where like this dude marries his mother. ._. someone enlighten me pleasies? :D

Ah, well you know how Colby likes having us break out dictionaries for words we didn't know existed. XD

I think it has something to do with Fang's obsession with poor Zedwig. Am I right, Colby? My guess is that Zedwig's room is next to Fang's. If you know where one is, you automatically know the other.

Of course, I could be completely wrong. :-P

Well, you're right in that it is in part related to Fang's obsession with Zedwig, but in this particular instance I'd like to invoke the writer's right to abstain from explaining.

Everything's there to piece it together, though.

Well, if I'm guessing right, that makes their relationship even *more* twisted than it was in Fromage. Yikes, Fang, yikes.

Don't go crazy with it. If you've read Fromage, you know everything.

D: i am evidently not sufficiently astute to grasp the linguistic subtleties of Lint. i shall leave it to the smarties. ignorance is uh...bliss?

*skips off to stop torturing my poor brain and just admires the pretty Al'bert & Bactine*~~ :D

Don't forget Fang's obsession with his mom. The boy is Not Well, methinks.

One at a time, two at a time, three at a time...heh. :D

Loved the last panel. And of course, Al'bert!

Noo!!! Fang is going to figure out that there is another healer nearby!

Oh yeah! Al'bert's arm was broken, I seem to remember that, and Bactine fixed it up...yikes, now she's in trouble!

Oh, and by the way- I have the feeling that Al'bert is referring to the room that belonged to Fang's mother, that Zedwig sleeps in the old queen's bedroom, or something like that...yeah, very creepy, especially with the way he just 'battles and sleeps'. Oh, and Al'bert, we would do anything for you...maybe!

<3

I just decided I want Al'bert for Christmas. ; ) He is just too cute.

Dang. You beat me to it.... :)

I'm proud of myself. I actually understand the 'oedipal' answer. ^ ^

oh you do! could you explain? :D its a pity if you read Lint but don't fully understand the language games @_@ its all part of the Lint experience! 8D

The word 'oedipal' is based off the Greek story about a son that married his mother. The thing is, in that particular case, the son didn't know she was his mother, because his father tried to kill him and was raised by somebody else, without any knowledge of who his biological parents were. :-)

For more detail:

The king had a son, and then heard from an oracle that his son would kill him. So, he abandoned his baby son on a mountainside. Good for the son, he was found and raised by an enemy king. Later, the son, Oedipas or something or the other, started leading raids and wars, and eventually killed his father and took over his country. Then he married the former queen, who so happened to be his mother. The harpies cursed him, and made him miserable, yada yada. Greeks like tradegies. XD

Basically, the word describes a son marrying his mother, and the mental things that accompany the tendancy.

Pretty much. The whole trilogy type thing makes me laugh probably more than it should.

In Lint's instance, Al'bert seems to be referring to the fact that Fang is, well, obsessed with his mother much like Oedipus still doesn't want to give up his marriage to his mother even after he finds out that she's his mother. It also has to do with psychology.

thank you! i understand better now!~~ :D

you know hes so freaking smug in the last panel, despite the impish look.

and i love bactines reaction: 'Maybe!'

Methinks I need to make a coat like Al'bert's....

I guess Fang doesn't have to worry about finding a healer anymore.