"Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery, take two

Dave Tallman · 03 Dec 2008, 16:53 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 09:53:27 -0700
Subject: (urth) "Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery,
	take two
Message-ID: <1bf4dd40812030853w4fedb5obea809d4ffd21c5e at mail.gmail.com>

Henry Eissler wrote:

> I think the man who received the manuscript was none other than G.W..
> The same guy who translated those old scrolls, etc..
>
>
That's not quite feasible, because the world of Fr. Cris has city-to-city
monorails, human genetic engineering, and the communists out of power in
Cuba. But for the sake of argument, let's say the recipient managed to
transmit the manuscript back to our G.W. without revealing it to anyone
else. It's still possible for the other time travelers to know enough to
intervene in Chris's life, if Chris's father is Captain Burt2.

Burt2 seems to be the mastermind behind the whole plot. If so, the
"betrayal" by Lesage isn't what it appears to be. When Burt appears to be
dying, he is just sending himself back to the future. He knows he will
recover (in the year of his own birth) and he will pick up his share of the
gold at secure location agreed on with Lesage in advance. No wonder he is
smiling and confident at the last. He knows he will survive, because it was
his older self who recruited him and Lesage to carry out this mission in the
first place. He will use the pirate gold (plus knowledge of the future for
the next few years) to establish himself as a gangster. Part of the money
will go to create his genetically engineered son, Chris.

Burt's first name is Bram, which the appendix says is short for Abraham. The
biblical Abraham is famous for almost offering up his only son Isaac to God
when God asked him to. After this test of his faith, he was blessed to be
the father of multitudes of descendants. The New Testament takes Isaac as a
type of Christ. So here we have Bram giving up his only son to the monastery
to be sent back in time on a "mission from God." Bram will have multitudes
of progeny descended from Chris and his children, and they may be highly
successful in investing their pirate weath given their foreknowledge of
history.

Christopher (a name meaning Christ-bearer) "dies" and comes back in a way
that his bride Novia doesn't recognize at first, just like the early
disciples had trouble recognizing the resurrected Christ. They will travel
around the world, as the Church spread the Gospel.
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