Subject: (urth) GWOT timelines

From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at sirius.com>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 06:41:55 +0000

Adam wrote:
>A technical nit to pick: actually the world at the end of the text is
>OS, or nearly so.  As Denys C2 transmits Denys CC's explanation, it
>"restores" itself as the Otherhood's interventions fail to take place,
>and Denys CC's presence, which distinguishes C2 from OS, disappears from
>history.  (135)

Well yes, "or nearly so."  Sure.  Certainly a lot closer to OS than the CC
situation, that's obvious.  But John Crowley is building up his timelines
with these bitty little details, and unless you yourself have cracked the
encyclopedia, I don't know that you know that in R101 crashed in OS 1930
and in C2 1935 (or thereabouts).  Is this one, tiny detail enough?  Hard to
say, maybe.  But it is a difference that JC has signalled, however
obscurely.

=mantis=

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