Cassie as the Ambassador's wife

Mo Holkar / UKG · 17 Sep 2009, 07:28 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:28:37 +0100
Subject: (urth) Cassie as the Ambassador's wife
In-Reply-To: <1bf4dd40909161830r5d20bacao479347b332225867 at mail.gmail.com
 >
References: <1bf4dd40909161830r5d20bacao479347b332225867 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20090917072833.28B604800C at diego.dreamhost.com>

At 02:30 17/09/2009, Davewrote:
>My reconstruction of the time travel would go more like this:
>1) Cassie's original 20+ hop trip to Woldercan involved no 
>time-travel. She met with Gideon Chase, as planned, but learned 
>there was no way to restore her mojo. (She might shoot him at this point).
>2) Using Woldercan resources (talking fish, Woldercan natives, etc.) 
>she finds out how to do time travel. She takes big hopper with lots 
>of fuel and uses it to go into the past, to Earth.
>3) The time is before the appointment of Bill Reis as ambassador. 
>She finds a way to court and marry Bill. Tricky, but she knows a lot 
>about him and what he likes.


This means, though, that she would have to court and marry Bill as 
haggard old Cassie -- she has had no opportunity to restore her looks 
inbetween? Unless you postulate there are also Woldercan resources 
for doing that.

Not necessarily impossible that he might still fall for her, but it 
seems to go against what we know of his showoffy nature.

best wishes,

Mo


# ~ # ~ #

WolfeWiki -- a wiki about Gene Wolfe
http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net