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

Matthew Keeley · 04 Dec 2008, 04:23 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 23:23:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery,
	take two
In-Reply-To: <49374B10.6000000 at mindspring.com>
References: <1bf4dd40812030853w4fedb5obea809d4ffd21c5e at mail.gmail.com>
	<49374B10.6000000 at mindspring.com>
Message-ID: <44fb53d10812032023s5a813a5bucc735c2c2dfcff15 at mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Henry Eissler
<henryeissleriii at mindspring.com> wrote:
>   Of course, I forgot that even Fr. Chris' time was in our future.  I don't
> remember anything about city-to-city monorails, though.
>   I have to read the book again.
>   'Til then,
>   ---H

I'm pretty sure there is something about monorails. Fairly early in
the text, though I could be wrong about its location in the book.
Given how long such a system would take to construct, and given how
little time the Cuban Commies seem to have left in the Real World, I
believe there was some speculation that Chris comes from sort of
parallel future? I don't imagine that Wolfe thinks we'll build an
extensive monorail system before the Castros get swept into the
dustbin of history - he's too much of an engineer and a realist.

-Matt

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net