Home Fires questions

Andreas Muegge · 02 Dec 2011, 13:50 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: dread.dragon at googlemail.com (Andreas Muegge)
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:50:50 +0100
Subject: (urth) Home Fires questions
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Almost missed this discussion...

2011/10/18 David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

>
>> > Was Skip once someone else?
>>
>> Seems like everyone in Home Fires is/was someone else so why not Skip?
>> Question is, who? His initials--S.W.G.--don't help me generate many
>> alternatives, although some sort of "Greene" seems likely. But Skip/overlay
>> might explain why Skip wonders if Chelle will recognize him on her
>> return--despite the Obvious Explanation that Skip will appear different in
>> Chelle's eyes because he has aged. Skip/overlay also fits with Skip's
>> too-easy transformation into agile hero aboard the cruise ship.
>>
>> > At the formal dinner, his family reunites. All three have trouble
>> recognizing one another (except when they don't). Two are known to be not
>> entirely who they think they are. Surely the third is also not entirely who
>> he is.
>>
>> I do wonder how any of the Blue family can recognize each other to any
>> degree because they're all replacements/overlays. Still, somehow Chelle
>> recognized her replacement mother at the airport while failing to recognize
>> Skip. Clearly an important clue.
>>
>
This puts the whole book into a new light. Does anyone have an idea how
it's possible that the "overlays" recognize each other in the new bodies?

Ciao,
  Andreas
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