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

Dave Tallman · 04 Dec 2008, 12:19 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:19:12 -0700
Subject: (urth) "Goodbye Old Buddy" -- Pirate Freedom murder mystery,
 take two
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Henry Eissler 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.
>   
Near the part about temptation we were talking about, Fr. Chris said he 
could take the monorail to New Jersey (p. 226).
>     But the manuscript that Chris passed on to his 'confessor' doesn't 
> really identify the monastery.  It's walking distance to Havana, but how 
> unique is that?
>   
The name of the monastery is given: Our Lady of Bethlehem (p. 58).

>     Still, your Bram Burt-as-mastermind theory makes me wonder.  The 
> Abraham reference makes sense.
>     But death is death.  You don't mean that he believes that his 
> experiences will be carried on into his infant self, do you?  That 
> doesn't make sense to me.
>   
In this theory I'm assuming that the same thing will happen to Burt that 
happened to Chris: when he nearly died after the hurricane he returned 
to the time of his own birth, as an adult. If I'm right, Burt would 
return to modern-day Rio Hato and could get fixed up there.

It's also possible that the death scene was faked. Burt didn't let Chris 
check him very carefully. It's a bit too pat that Chris returned to the 
battle scene just in time to receive Burt's dying bequest. Burt could 
have used a safer means to return to the future after Chris left.

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