# DOORS: malicapata and multiple Earths *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *21 Jan 2003, 03:20* > Spectacled Bear wrote: > I'm reading DOORS again for this discussion, and have reached ch 6. > In the first chapter, how come the buck-toothed doctor does not know > his name, but then says she has been worried about him? Has she just > been reading his file up till then? Or maybe the suggestion of a > retrospective change is right. Certainly he hasn't passed into another > world, because this all takes place within one conversation in one place. I understand. Another possible spin at that early stage is that "Green" is the name of a persona (of an unhinged person who thinks he is someone else) or a personality of a man with multiple-personalities (so the doctor is struggling to address the correct one of many). The possibility of another version of Earth doesn't come until chapter 22 (when backstory is filled in), and even then it is only a possibility. > What is "Malicapata"? An Otherworld disease, or something else? I don't know. My research has turned up nothing so far. I find it Graveseanly significant that the "boy" died 8 years ago, since 8 year cycles figure prominantly in the Graves plan. I'm not sure how to parse the word. "Mali-" can be "evil" or "apple"; "-capata," I don't know . . . looks like past tense? "He took the apple"? "Evil got him"? =mantis= ---