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  "thread": {
    "id": 4952,
    "subject": "PF - Chris' father",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2007-12-14T05:11:12+00:00",
    "last": "2007-12-14T05:11:12+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<20071214051112.D26C7DA827@mailserver7.hushmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "thalassocrat at nym.hush.com",
        "address": "thalassocrat at nym.hush.com"
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      "date": "2007-12-14T05:11:12+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PF - Chris' father",
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          "text": "There are some things which make Burt an attractive candidate as \nChris' father - somehow or other.\n\n- Burt takes to Chris early on for no very apparent reason \n(although there's always the possibility that Burt is simply gay). \nChris also seems to take to Burt very easily as a father figure.\n\n- At the end Burt seems strangely content to die with Chris in \ncontrol of his treasure.\n\n- The marriage issue - Burt has some issues with it (though maybe \njust because he doesn't want \"settled\" crew members), and there is \na complete absence of any hint that Chris' dad was ever married.\n\n- Chris' narrative stresses that Burt isn't as tall as he is in at \nleast a couple of places - which might fit somehow with the \n\"engineered height\" thing.\n\n- Burt is blonde versus Chris dark - but no big deal, particularly \nwith \"engineering\". Sicilian vs British doesn't have to be a big \nissue.\n\n- Burt has lots of face hair obscuring his features, and possibly \nobscuring a resemblance.\n\nIn the end, I don't see how it would work. Burt is close to Chris' \nage, and he does seem really to die at Rio Hato.\n\nVery speculatively, you can also put together a story in which \nChris is his own father. \n\nSomething like this: Soon after Chris sets off for his trip to the \nfuture, Novia tumbles to Ignacio. She's smart, she learns \nsomething, maybe she figures out that Ignacio conspired with \nLesage; or maybe Ignacio just can't help making a premature move on \nher.\n\nThey fight; Ignacio has to mess her up badly, too badly for 17th \ncentury medicine. He takes her and sets off after Chris, whatever \nhe needs to do to follow him to the future, as he did to the past.\n\nThey arrive back in 2007 at the same time as the narrator, but \nunknown to him. By my chronology, the return date is around about \nthe same time as Chris' birth. Call the returned Ignacio \"Daddy \nChris\". \n\nNovia dies; the Chris-foetus is saved (maybe with some \n\"engineering\"? Novia is short and maybe a natural Chris will grow \nup short too. Or something.) \n\nOver the next few years, the narrator does \"this and that\" & almost \nlands in jail a couple of times before entering the seminary \n(presumably to launder his identity and avoid whatever heat is \nafter him). But Daddy Chris takes advantage of having lived through \nthe period already to do better, prospering in the rackets and \nbecoming some kind of executive-level mafioso ..."
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