Ted = Goldwurm?

Roy C. Lackey · 02 May 2010, 04:43 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 23:43:43 -0500
Subject: (urth) Ted = Goldwurm?
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Craig Brewer wrote:
>
> And I found the "dream" explanation odd as well. Since Orizia was still
far away, perhaps it was a dream state (or something else psychic) for her
even though Bax could physically move to faerie because of the house? <

That whole scene is weird. Physical description seems to weigh in Orizia's
favor. Bax climbed out the window, got lost in the woods, met Orizia, took
the phone call from Hardaway, met Winker, then they made their way back to
the house. They couldn't get fat Orizia through his bedroom window, so Bax
and Orizia started walking around the house, looking for a door. They came
to another window where old Nick was tapping. Nick climbed out the window
and Bax climbed in it, as his cell phone was ringing.

That much *seems* okay, but it's not. In the very next sentence (149), Bax
got out of bed and answered the phone call from Doris. In the first place,
the window he climbed through to get back in the house was not the same
window he climbed out of. The window he entered the house by was probably
not even in his bedroom. But even if it had been the same window in the same
bedroom, he should not have been in the bed. It had been established earlier
that the master bedroom was very large and his big bed was in the center of
the room (138), not under a window. That makes it all seem like a dream, but
. . .

-Roy

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