Tracking Song

Tony Ellis · 19 Jun 2007, 22:09 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com (Tony Ellis)
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:09:28 +0100
Subject: (urth) Tracking Song
Message-ID: <9a33123d0706191509s6cad8b89wabf9211b064271d at mail.gmail.com>

1) Cutthroat's amnesia doesn't seem to be the result of a head injury
- he has none. The implication is that the people on the Sleigh have
deliberately wiped or suppressed it.

If this is the case, there was nothing accidental about his leaving
the Sleigh: it was orchestrated. If it was orchestrated, it was done
so in the full knowledge that the Sleigh would be back in a couple of
weeks.

2) "This is the fourteenth day. I do not know why that number should
seem significant to me, but it does."
The Great Sleigh catches up with Cutthroat after 19 days, but only
because he has spent days unwittingly putting more distance between
himself and it. Could the fourteenth day seem significant to Cutthroat
because that's when the Sleigh was scheduled to pick him up again?

Tying this together: climatic engineering is about to change the way
of life of the peoples of this world dramatically, and forever.
Suppose one of the people on the Sleigh wanted to experience this way
of life, to actually live among these people, while there was still a
little time. Perhaps he's an anthropologist, perhaps he's just someone
who wants to shrug off the burden of civilised life for a few days. A
tourist zoanthrop.

"Blank my memory," he tells his friends, "I want to go there with a
clean slate, not as one of us. And don't talk to me on the damn
radio."

Just a thought.

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