Quote:After all, Arcanum wouldn't have welcomed Doug 50 years ago...I interpreted that comment to mean that Quincy is stuck in the BGC-World and would have welcomed Doug as his ticket home (even as a prisoner), but now he has built himself an empire and does no longer want to leave. The other way you could read it would mean considering Quincy to have been a fallen hero or at least a good guy at heart who now no longer shares the ideals of his youth and might even be ashamed of what Doug will see in him.
On the overall interpretation I am not giving up on my time-travel theory. (Quincy could not possibly be from 50 years in Doug's homeworld past.) If Quincy is not an older Doug himself, he might still be somebody who Doug still has to meet on his Journey. A future traveling companion that Doug has told a lot about himself, a side-effect of Dougs magic at some point in the past or future or even, his newly built bike after having gained sentinence far along the Journey.
As long as Quincy does not tell him "I am your father, Doug." in the voice of James Earl Jones I wont complain.