TSH: Ted's identity

Roy C. Lackey · 21 Apr 2010, 18:27 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:27:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) TSH: Ted's identity
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James Wynn quoted and wrote:
> >> But what about his connection to the werewolves, if there is one?
> >>He appears to Bax in the woods the same time he meets Lupine.
>
> > FWIW, my impression of Ted's ghost (if it was a ghost) in the woods
> >was that he was trying to protect Doris in some way from the werewolf.
> >In the same way, I thought that Winkle was also trying to distract Lupine
> >away from Bax by barking and getting the werewolf to chase her.
>
> If Ted was there to protect anyone, surely it was to protect Bax.

Maybe. But as soon as Lupine muttered boo, he split. Why? What kind of
protection is that? What does a dead man have to fear from a werewolf?
Remember that when Lupine first took Bax's hand in the dark woods, Bax
thought she was Doris. (Shades of the Doris/Lupine confusion later at the
car.) When Lupine spoke, Ted may have realized she wasn't Doris, so he left,
maybe to look after Doris as she headed back to the car.

> He
> had already protected him from Ieuan.

Again, maybe. Bax leaves that impression, but I'm not 100% sure that's
really what happened, even if that was the practical effect.

But then neither am I convinced that the "other" guy in the back of Bax's
car with Doris ("You have t'other one in back there, settin' with you in the
dark?" [183] ) that Kiki mentioned was Nicholas, then still safely locked up
in the trunk. I think it may have been ghostly Ted, hanging around Doris and
trying to look after her.

-Roy

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