Loki L wrote:
Now, there's another clue as to what the first word of the chapter will be.
Any more would be telling.
-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert
Quote:At 160K or so, it's one of the longer ones, in fact.
I was going to complain that it was so short, but I guess it just seemed that way.
Quote:That he did, but it was as much the moment as the evidence. Doug did not assemble Sylia's identity out of the information at hand so much as have a flash of intuition that he then confirmed to his own satisfaction. Yes, he has more than enough to ID Priss -- her comments about bootlegging music, seeing her perform, some of Lisa's offhanded comments, and of course the com chatter transcripts. In a different context, with a different stimulus, he could certainly assemble that into a guess at a specific person, even though he wouldn't know her name. Discovering Lisa's connection to the Sabers would provide the final link such that an epiphany isn't even necessary. And if I decide to work it into a specific scene that's already written, maybe he will figure that out. I don't know yet.
Doug's discovery of Sylvia's identity was a bit hard to swallow for my taste. Maybe some mentioning of other circumstantial evidence or even some sort of intuiton would make it easier. He cartainly had much more information on Priss then on Sylvia.
Quote:Let me just say two things: I know the history of the diamond cartel, and I've read Stephenson's The Diamond Age. Neither is true of Doug.
The other thing that struck me is the value of the diamond he left with lisa for payment.
Now, there's another clue as to what the first word of the chapter will be.
Quote:You're not the first to speculate on that. I'll point out that the neurophage technology that comprises her brain is very different from the boomer brain, and obviously lacks the GENOM after-market add-ons.
The revelation about Sylvia's status at this point opens the possibility that she might be affected, too.
Any more would be telling.
Quote:She hasn't thought that far yet. Poor girl.
I also hope Lisa has some good explanations ready about how she did not reveal the Sabers secrets to Doug and how it really is just a coincidence that he entrusted the task of finding the Knight-Sabers to someone who actually knew them.
-- Bob
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"Flan on!" -- The battlecry of the Human Dessert