(urth) PF - Lesage & Ignacio

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:46:17 +1100 paul witcover <gdeonn at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
>   
>  Some fascinating speculation, and I think you may be on to 
>something re: Ignacio's role in Lesage's betrayal.  But Chris is 
>almost killed in that betrayal; would Iganacio really have 
>launched an action that could very easily have wound up in the 
>death of his earlier self, with highly unclear implications for 
>the causality of his own present (or future) existence?

Yep, that's certainly a soggy spot in the theory. I guess Fr Chris 
could be lying about the events of the night - eg maybe what 
actually happened was that he was tied up while asleep & left 
alone, or something. But I'd hate to think that he explicitly lies 
in the narrative - if there, why not everywhere? 

It might be worth having another look at yr Lesage-as-dad theory - 
something around that could also let Lesage know about times & 
places. Eg: Dad also follows Chris1 back in time, to become Lesage 
... But Lesage would have to be old enough for that to fit - around 
about 40, I think - and I don't know if we have anything suggesting 
that.

Also, I'm convinced that Ignacio is involved somehow - but then 
again I'm biased against the guy :)


>  Another thought that's been nibbling at my brain is about the 
>moment that Chris first encounters the Native American slave he 
>purchases and then frees (Hoodas, who seems to be the real-life 
>model for Friday in Crusoe).  At that moment, Chris says:  "And I 
>fet as though He were standing right behind me, laying His pierced 

>hand on my shoulder. This is it, Chris. This is the moment. What 
>are you going to do?"
>   
>  I wonder, only partially seriously, if Chris was brought back 
>just for this moment, as the answer to Friday's prayers, and 
>everything else is incidental to that. 

I thought about that too, but I couldn't do anything much with it. 
It seems that Hoodas brutally murders the innkeeper & his son at 
the sack of Maracaibo, which doesn't seem like the kind of thing 
you'd expect if Jesus had intervened here :) 

>I also wonder if "Hoodas" 
>could be a Judas-like character, and that he, rather than Ignacio, 

>is responsible for Lesage's betrayal.  Do we know what becomes of 
>Hoodas?

I assumed that he was one of the many who died in the sea battle 
with the treasure fleet, but that doesn't have to be so. It is a 
little odd that he has an (old?) friend on Chris' ship (Red Jack? 
can't remember) - what's with that?