AEG clones

Dave Tallman · 14 Dec 2008, 12:26 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:26:07 -0700
Subject: (urth) AEG clones
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I'm not too convinced of the Rian-clone theory, but another bit of 
evidence is his name. It means "Little King." Since Ries is the King, it 
seems like a "Mini-me" sort of name.

> Diplomacy? Cassie had seen him in the audience (53), and at the cast party
> he said he had been there. (66) So was he lying then or now? Sure, his first
> sight of her could have been on vid; he demonstrated the capability to her
> three months later in his car. But Gid had put the glamour on her less than
> twenty-four hours before that final performance. So who did she see in the
> audience?
>   
Ries was telling her a lot of lies at that point; his accounts of the 
gold bracelet were highly contradictory. He didn't know that she knew he 
could walk unseen, or that she caught a glimpse of him at the play. The 
lie kept explanations simple. The alternative of a clone (artificially 
aged to be Bill's double and also taught to walk unseen) is too much.

> The waitress at Rusterman's who looked like Alexis Cabana asked Cassie if
> she was really there to meet Mr. Rosenquist, and said that he was a friend
> of Mr. Rusterman. When Cassie asked if there was a real Mr. Rusterman, she
> said: "He's the company president. There was another Mr. Rusterman years and
> years ago, and he opened the first one. But now this Mr. Rusterman is
> president of our whole chain. He's a cousin or something." (118)  Cousin
> indeed. We know that Rusterman is really Reis.
>   
The waitress may be repeating what she was told. We know that the real 
founder of Rusterman's was Marko Vukcic, the childhood friend of Nero 
Wolfe in Montenegro.

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