(urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)

[Thomas Bitterman]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> Thomas Bitterman
>
>> This just begs the question.  The only record we have of them seeing any of
>>
>> this is from the letters that Bax has.  These are the very letters that are
>> being called into doubt, at least the supernatural parts.
>>
>>
> No, I am bringing in all the independent witnesses against your theory. To
> support it, you have to say that the challenge note from George, the letters
> from Madame Orizia, and the second letter from Doris are all forged or
> edited by Bax. And I say that oversteps the bounds of the suspension of
> disbelief. About the only letters admitted as factual at this point are
> those to and from Shell, and letters from Millie.
>

As mentioned in another post, the circumstances of George's note and its
contents make forgery probable, IMHO.  Madame Orizia is an accomplice (and
somewhat out of
the loop - how could she cover his home "quite thoroughly", given the
warping it's always doing?).  Doris was not emotionally stable when she
wrote the second latter and should not be considered a reliable witness.
FWIW, the Compiler (whom I maintain is Bax) is upfront about "extensive"
editing.

So:
- the note from George is a forgery
- Orizia's letters are genuine, but she is mixing truth and fantasy
- Doris's letters are genuine, but she is emotionally distraught and hence
unreliable

Windows into Faerie, werewolves, vampires, visions of the future, astral
>> projection, triannuluses (triannuli?), houses that grow and rearrange -
>>
>> these are all harder to swallow than lucking into money.  Not everything he
>> says is false, just the stuff about Faerie.
>>
>>
> All right then, what is your rational explanation for him "lucking into
> money"? Was a deed to a house just handed to him? If so, why? And then he
> just happens to inherit a valuable chunk of real estate?  Please show
> in-story clues to what really happened.
>

Fraud and forgery.  I mean, a felon fraudster, truly gifted in forgery,
"inherits"/forges wills for properties from a couple of people who died out
of town with no heirs?  Really?  This is less believable than windows into
Faerie, werewolves, vampires, etc.?
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