<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Just on Doris' motivation: she does admit in her letter that money was a big reason she was interested in him. I took that to mean that, initially, she was using him (she needed to take a potential client out, knew he at least had a house, soon learned he was inheriting profitable land, etc.), but, over time, her feelings might have changed.<br><br>But one of the reasons that I was initially attracted to the "all a scam" possibility was how it seemed like so many people in this book at one point or another are trying to scam someone else.<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, April 30, 2010 2:19:35 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) Ted = Goldwurm?<br></font><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Roy C. Lackey <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rclackey@stic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net">rclackey@stic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><br>Between Doris's lunch note and her arrival to pick him up, Bax got out the<br>triannulus. Its three rings were still aligned to fish but "the pointer had<br>
wandered away." (33) More importantly, he first noticed at that time that<br>"When the rings were aligned to fish, several other things fell into line as<br>well." Recall that among the glyphs were some that "may be indecent." (26)<br>
We aren't told which other glyphs also lined up or where the pointer had<br>wandered away to, but it would be a good bet that one of those glyph<br>alignments was "indecent", and its magic is what put Doris and Winker in the<br>
sack with Bax.<br></blockquote>
<div>Absolutely - I was going to say something along the same lines but work intervened. I was thinking that perhaps the "other things" might just have been "women". Bax does of course get 3 women: Doris, Winkle and Millie (assuming Winkle counts). </div>
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