(urth) Gideon

[John Watkins]

About this angelic stuff.

I don't have the book at hand, but it's my recollection that, at
Cassie's "raising," Cassie suggests that a "raised" human would be
"like an angel, or..."

I think that the "or" is what we should be looking at--Cassie was
clearly about to say "a god," and she's identified repeatedly as the
"green goddess."  Although traditionally an angel is "lower" than a
god, I think here an angel would be higher--Cassie's on the plane of
the Overcyns.



On 1/16/09, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
> Roy C. Lackey wrote:
>> Gil Corby was in the cargo space behind the seats, so I don't think there
>> was any danger of making eye contact. And I don't know that he knew then
>> (or
>> any time before she went to Woldercan) that Margaret was Cassie. I assume
>> that any hop had the potential to warp time, and Margaret was afraid of
>> what
>> might happen when the craft warped.
>>
> It's true that the other riders "turned to speak with Corby" (155), so
> Margaret could have kept from eye contact without holding her eyes shut.
> It did give her an excuse not to look at him. She knew she was about to
> be arrested and that Gib was working for the FBI. She didn't want to
> risk giving him information that would make her interrogation more
> difficult.
>
> The time-warping fear seems implausible, since there seems to be a
> connection between warping distance and the amount of time skipped.
> Messages to and from Woldercan seem to time-shift only a few days or
> weeks. To go back further, one must traverse an even greater distance. I
> think this is the explanation for why the Milky Way looks like a "little
> band of bright stars" (301) at the end. Cassie has left Woldercan and
> gotten into position to make her run back into time.
>
> Possibly Cassie and Margaret being in close proximity makes it more
> dangerous. I'm starting a new theory on the reality-shifts. They seem to
> happen only in places where the two are together. Perhaps the proximity
> of the two creates a paradox field. As Cassie says, "it's liable to get
> complicated" (298) when you mess with time paradoxes.
>
> For example, look at what happened to Jimmy. He was sandwiched between
> Cassie in the tiny dressing room (backing away from her) and Margaret
> coming in (nearly bumping into her), on p. 56. Then  "...Cassie
> suspected he would have run, had he still been capable of running" (57).
> Jimmy was in his sixties or seventies (52). Would age alone make him
> unable to run? Would he still be employed as a theater watchman if he
> couldn't?
>
> A short time later, Jimmy was dead, apparently of natural causes.
> Cassie's assumption at the time was that Reis killed Jimmy somehow, but
> later we realize that isn't his style. Cassie half-heartedly asks
> Margaret to look into it for her (90), but nothing ever comes of this.
> They seem to mutually agree to let it drop. There is one more possible
> sign of an uneasy conscience on Cassie's part: when she buys a hopper
> she chooses a Jimmy Galactic (297).
>
> More cases:
> 1) Cassie's apartment number, address, and floor seem to move. Cassie
> and Margaret are together there more than once.
> 2) When Cassie and Margaret are together at Rustermans, Margaret is
> identified as "Alexis's dresser" and Margaret says softly "I'm Miss
> Casey's dresser now, Miss White" (60). Soon Alexis has been converted
> into a waitress at Rusterman's.
> 3) When Cassie needs a safe in her hotel room, Margaret helps her
> find/create it.
>
> This is a little better than my other theory where Cassie does all these
> changes alone, by pure angelic power.
>
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