Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

James Wynn · 17 Nov 2011, 17:01 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:01:19 -0600
Subject: (urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy
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> James Wynn wrote (17-11-2011 15:58):
>> I've presented a theory based on the existence of a "second" Oreb at 
>> Silk's
>> residence that night and the evidence that Rajan can Time-travel.
>
> Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> 'Rajan can Time-travel' is what you are proposing here, not evidence 
> for it. This is the one occasion where time travel is the most 
> straightforward explanation. Visiting the Red Sun needn't involve TT 
> at all and appearing in the grandmother's tale can be manipulation.

How does the manipulation work? Is there any other evidence that the 
Rajan can do that?

The evidence has already been presented and  is understood. The Rajan's 
presence in the grandmother's tale and the screwy time-line in SS are 
the evidence of Time-travel (examine when Hoof and Hide say they each 
left Lizard Island as opposed to when they return...also, not the ages 
of Sinew's sons. You *might* be able to just worm those in but it is a 
verrry tight squeeze).

Understanding that the Rajan is time-traveling and appears in Pike's 
room is not a matter of taking each piece of evidence in turn and  
proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that is TT. That's not the way a 
Wolfe novel works. For each event there are always alternate 
explanations. For example, maybe Number Five's last name does NOT start 
with a "W". After all, he didn't find any of his father's books on the W 
shelf.

Instead, it is a matter of taking ALL the evidence (including the second 
Oreb) and saying "Oh. Time-travel".

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