Violet=Plutonium

Jordon Flato · 15 Nov 2011, 01:39 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: jordonflatourth at gmail.com (Jordon Flato)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:39:06 -0800
Subject: (urth) Violet=Plutonium
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Admittedly I havent closely followed this thread, but it strikes me that a
tough talking chem like sand would certainly say "hello, plutonium" when he
saw a beautiful woman instead of "hello, hot stuff".  Too simple?

On Nov 14, 2011 1:40 PM, "James Wynn" <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
>
> Sand is able to be sarcastic, ne c'est pas?
> I really think that ma...
Sand? What the...!!

Seriously, though, this is more like a kwansit hut built on sand. But many
assertions that There's Nothing To See Here are also not founded in granite.

The question of whether Violet is a chem was worth knocking around for
these reasons:
Only Sand uses this supposed "term of endearment". He never employs it
toward anyone but Violet; neither bio or chem.
We'd be morons not to knock around the idea that she is a chem, just to
dispense with it. I'm not inclined to believe that she is, but I *do*
believe more is going on. I always have.

I want to distinguish things we definitely know and what is not
confirmation of anything (I don't do this to *prove* that Violet is a chem):

Violet works at Orchids. Violet makes extra money as a spy. Hyacinth was a
spy for the Trivigaunte and has also worked at Orchids. If Violet is a
chem, the people she works for know it, but this is only necessarily true
if she is a chem. Her claim not to be able to read undermines this
suspicion, but she could be lying. A desire for money is not evidence that
she is a chem. One of the black mechanics has altered his chem so that he
works for no money. There is a chem, Sard, who runs a shop. Chems want
things money can buy. Since they want replacement parts, their desire is
possibly greater.

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