<div>John Watkins wrote: <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>I like the Cassie = Margaret theory a lot more than I like the "two<br>
Bills" theory. This comic book stuff with "Robin" has basically<br>convinced me.<br><br>Note that the first female Robin in the comics was Carrie Kelly.</pre></blockquote><div><br>Thanks, I'm glad someone else finds this convincing. I didn't know about Carrie Kelly -- the name sounds a lot like Cassie Casey, doesn't it?<br>
<br>Here are a couple more references I picked up:<br><br>1) "A mountain whose wife washed clothes?" (pp. 41-42, 83). This needs a
meaning in the book's context, besides the reference to the Cory
Doctorow novel "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town."
Reis is associated with the Volcano God, so he is the mountain. His
wife (common-law) was Cassie. Margaret described herself as an "expert
seamstress and laundress." It's interesting that Margaret is the only person Cassie asks about this strange washerwoman. The reference is forced into the conversation a bit awkwardly, and all Margaret can do is respond "A dream?" (83). It was indeed Cassie's dream that got her to this state.<br>
<br>2) Klauser suggests that the younger Cassie was the clone child of the
now-older Cassie. This foreshadows the relationship of Cassie and
Margaret as temporal clones. Also, "Cassiopeia weeps for her children" -- both the
children she didn't have with Bill, and her lost younger self. Cassie
will try to "get her back," and one way to do that would be to go back
in time and try to fix things.<br><br><br>
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