AEG clones

Dave Tallman · 19 Dec 2008, 12:34 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:34:28 -0700
Subject: (urth) AEG clones
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Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> Sunglasses are a given. (44) But in a darkened theater at night, why would a
> man who is invisible wear glasses to disguise himself? Why show up invisible
> at all?
Reis had a lot of enemies, including the F.B.I., the A.T.F., and Cthulhu 
cultists. He would be sensible to take any number of precautions when 
going to a public place where someone might expect him to be (if India 
talked, for example). He attended all his son's football games invisibly 
(p. 277).

Why disguise himself when he's already invisible? It seems cameras can 
defeat glamours (the photo of Gib showed him as he really was) and maybe 
invisibility too, since it works on the same principle. That gives 
another possible explanation for John's thick glasses. They could 
conceal a camera and video feed, so he could have "true sight." Chase 
might have been telling John that the Woldercans could do the same thing 
without being so obvious, with their superior science of optics.

> I took the yellow feather bit as just a continuation of the cat analogy. As
> in the common expression "the cat that ate the canary". He is pompous, smug,
> just full of himself.
>   
That's a plausible alternative. Still, Wolfe goes out of his way to 
mention the yellow feathers in the headdress later, so I tend to think 
this is a clue.

> Yeah, but I'm not sure what. Maybe this is a clue: Vince claims to be 6'4";
> Reis is 6'2". I can't recall if Gil is said to be slightly taller than Gid,
> but Klauser thought the "Casey girl" was about a half inch taller than the
> aged Cassie. (295) That's an odd thing for a man who saw the glamourized
> Cassie only on vid to say. But there might be a pattern there.
>   
So maybe Vince is a clone or temporal double of Reis, using a glamour to 
appear different? That could be it. And if so that makes Norma Peiper 
the real ex-wife of Reis or his equivalent, just as I suspected. "I used 
to be married to the volcano god." (p. 176)

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