(urth) Some Pirate Freedom thoughts and questions
"Fernando Q. Gouvêa"
fqgouvea at colby.edu
Sun Dec 2 09:24:47 PST 2007
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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