(urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions

["Fernando Q. Gouvêa"]

paul witcover wrote:
>     My fantasy of what happens after Chris2 has Novia all to himself is
>     that, when he spills his story to her, she grabs the nearest knife
>     and eviscerates him.

It does sound quite likely!

>     The similarity of "wiseguy" and "Lesage" led me to wonder if that
>     pirate is really another iteration of Chris, and whether Chris's
>     father is Lesage -- and there might be more than one temporal loop
>     involved -- but when I saw Wolfe at the World Fantasy Convention, I
>     asked him explicitly about this, and his response was "No, I hadn't
>     thought of that.  You're smarter than I am."  I protested the
>     contrary! 

:-) I think the temptation to be smarter than Wolfe and to see hidden 
connections everywhere is with us always...

Fernando

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