DOORS: Tina's origins

Roy C. Lackey · 28 Jan 2003, 08:14 · from urth-v0301.mbox · original

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From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
Subject: Re: (urth) DOORS: Tina's origins
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:14:03 -0600
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Spectacled Bear wrote:
>But the really interesting question about Tina, that I have not seen
>addressed before, is: how does she know about Daddies? For his birthday,
>"Didn't Mama and Daddy give you anything?" (p228) Green hasn't seen his
>father for years, but Tina says his father still loves him. "I know about
>Daddies, though. And you don't." And so on. Where in the world - in which
>world - did she learn about Daddies?

And just to confuse things further; when they were in the limo Tina said to
Klamm, speaking of Green: "He needs your help, Papa." Klamm matter-of-factly
answers her: "Then he shall haff it. Whatever I can give." (300) Why did
Tina call him "Papa"?

Almost by definition, children in the Otherworld to whom the dolls were
given wouldn't have a daddy. Given the necessarily limited amount of memory
available in a mechanical doll, I don't think it would be expended on a
person the child could never know.

-Roy

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