AEG clones

Dave Tallman · 21 Dec 2008, 12:27 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:27:46 -0700
Subject: (urth) AEG clones
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James Wynn wrote:
> It's true that Cassie wears green prior to the party, but this solution is 
> no more "text-based" than your prior theory. It is significantly less so, 
> really, since it relies on reams of supposition about what might have or 
> have not happened between the time Cassie reached the mountain and when she 
> got home. Rather than solving anything, it inelegantly raises an 
> intimidating army of intractable mysteries.
>   
That may be true of Roy's original theory, but not of my revised version 
(that Reis saw her before the glamour, using Aaberg as his spy). Chase 
simply took her home -- no extra suppositions are needed.

> On the other hand, your prior theory succeeds in resolving the issue of why 
> Reis was lying up a storm about seeing her at the play. Why *after the fact* 
> would Reis need to lie about seeing her at the play? Because no one else saw 
> him there? So what? So they didn't see him. He just says, "You must have 
> missed seeing me."
Statements by Reis:
1) "...I saw 'The Red Spot' tonight..." (p. 67).
2) "You were wearing green the first time I saw you." (p. 119)
3) "I was thinking of the party." (p. 119)
4) "I didn't [see the play]. I know I said I did, but that was..." (p. 119)

The hard one to explain is #4. He chose to contradict himself, when he 
could have kept consistent by sticking to the idea that he was just 
thinking about the party, that her brown dress in the play didn't count 
because she in a role, etc.

Clone theory: 1) F, 2) T, 3) T, 4) T. More trues than falses this way, 
but why not keep it simple and take the actions of his clone for his own?

Loden dress theory: 1) T, 2) T, 3) F, 4) F. In this one, he had been 
caught in an admission he didn't want to make (#2). He covered for it 
clumsily, perhaps because he was flustered.

The Rusterman conversation is full of lies and half-truths on both 
sides. Part of the fun is figuring them out. His explanation of the 
reason he took the bracelet back from Margaret is at least full of lies 
by omission. "I had hoped that you would love it..." (and get radiation 
poisoning).

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