aeg: gideon

John Watkins · 06 Jan 2009, 03:04 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: john.watkins04 at gmail.com (John Watkins)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 22:04:59 -0500
Subject: (urth) aeg: gideon
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Wouldn't even have to be a lie per se... "I never saw you onstage
(from the audience)".



On 1/5/09, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
> Marc Aramini wrote:
>> Roy stated the person who shot gideon was a man.  A while ago I thought
>> the male dancer in the play with the initials d d who was described as
>> &quot;not a man&quot; could be diana diamond but I > need to read it again
>> with that in mind
>
> The gender of the Takanga Ha'i assassin is highly ambiguous. The
> doctor says it was once human and female, but that his opinion hardly
> matters. Chase may have been mistaken in thinking his attacker was a
> man.
>
> The case for Donny Duke's connection with the assassin is good:
> 1) "In real life Donny Duke was small and swishy..." p. 53. He is
> later described as "not a man."
> 2) The assassin is a "little bit of a thing." p. 256.
> 2) Duke plays an assassin in "Red Spot" p. 63.
> 3) The actor who played the King Kanoa character in "Dating the
> Volcano God" played a character who hired Duke as Cassie's assassin in
> "Red Spot".
> 3) He likes thick green drinks (63,64). The assassin has thick green spit
> (252).
> 4) The common initials equals common identity game: both are known by D.D.
>
> On the other hand:
> 1) "Diana" she has never tried to "tread the boards" as an actor.
> 2) "Diana" says she didn't see Cassie's performance in which she
> danced a hornpipe in a scanty costume (250). Cassie's partner in that
> dance was Donny Duke (131). One of her fellow cult members did see
> that performance, and that could well be Duke.
>
> The assassin could be lying, of course. The connecting clues are so
> good that I hate to give up the theory on her say-so alone. Duke's
> face had red pimples, and the assassin's was very white, but this
> could be the result of cultish transformations.
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