Ted = Goldwurm?

Craig Brewer · 30 Apr 2010, 13:40 · from 2010-April.txt.gz

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From: cnbrewer at yahoo.com (Craig Brewer)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:40:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) Ted = Goldwurm?
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Just on Doris' motivation: she does admit in her letter that money was a big reason she was interested in him. I took that to mean that, initially, she was using him (she needed to take a potential client out, knew he at least had a house, soon learned he was inheriting profitable land, etc.), but, over time, her feelings might have changed.

But one of the reasons that I was initially attracted to the "all a scam" possibility was how it seemed like so many people in this book at one point or another are trying to scam someone else.

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On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

>Between Doris's lunch note and her arrival to pick him up, Bax got out the
>triannulus. Its three rings were still aligned to fish but "the pointer had
>>wandered away." (33) More importantly, he first noticed at that time that
>"When the rings were aligned to fish, several other things fell into line as
>well." Recall that among the glyphs were some that "may be indecent." (26)
>>We aren't told which other glyphs also lined up or where the pointer had
>wandered away to, but it would be a good bet that one of those glyph
>alignments was "indecent", and its magic is what put Doris and Winker in the
>>sack with Bax.
>
Absolutely - I was going to say something along the same lines but work intervened. I was thinking that perhaps the  "other things" might just have been "women". Bax does of course get 3 women: Doris, Winkle and Millie (assuming Winkle counts). 

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