Quote:That's my favorite line in the whole chapter, I must admit, and I'm glad to hear that at least one reader had that reaction. True story: As a way of proofing the mostly-complete chapter, Peggy was reading it aloud to me as we drove down to visit my family back in June. When she came to that paragraph, she dissolved into giggles and couldn't start reading again for a couple of minutes. Up until that point I wasn't sure the joke worked there; after that, I had no more doubts.
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"'Will warp fabric of space-time for food,'"
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- I was reading this at ~7am, and actually laughed loud enough to be heard by a neighboring cube-mate...
Quote:No, the Three are trying to keep him from realizing something else entirely -- and we've laid more than enough hints in the first two chapters for an alert reader to figure out just what it is. Hell, Urd almost "says" it to the reader during the books-and-videodiscs scene.
Chris is channelling a different BGC universe - which obviously follows from his area of control - if he can affect time, naturally he can access alternate realities... Something that the Three are trying to keep him from realizing (at this point, at least).
-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03