AEG clones...send them in

John Watkins · 16 Dec 2008, 22:21 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:21:57 -0500
Subject: (urth) AEG clones...send them in
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Another, maybe too obvious, three candidates are Gideon Chase, the
president, and the man the president calls John.  Note that "John"
isn't saying the three men are the "three most evil"--he's responding
to the President's claim that "There's a hell of a lot of evil men in
the world" by saying that "three in particular" are at issue--why not
the three in the room?  Is Wolfe telling us, up front, by means of
what might be "John's" practiced cynicism, that Chase and the US
government are on the side of the devils?

On 12/16/08, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
> More candidates for the three most evil men in the world:
>
> 1) The man who set up the illusion-cult tomb in "Memorare" (his statue looks
> like Gene Wolfe).
> 2) King Kanoa, probably a major Cthulhu-cult leader.
> 3) Real Senators known to the president, if John wasn't joking.
>
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