The Secret: a new theory

Kevin J. Maroney · 20 Apr 2001, 13:32 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney at ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) The Secret: a new theory
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:32:55
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At 11:50 AM 4/20/01 +0100, Nick Gevers wrote:
>The resolution to the problem, I now argue, is another
>much-questioned feature of TBSS?s plot: astral travel.

An interesting theory, all in all, but with potentially fatal problems:=20

Krait tells The Secret to Horn, and the narrator refers to The Secret in
_Blue_. But the narrator does not discover that he can astrally travel
until partway through the frame events of _Green_, and is surprised by it,
which implies that he was not told about it by Krait and thus it is not
part of The Secret.=20

Also, the astral travel surprises even the inhumi who participate in it,
which makes it even more unlikely that Krait told Horn about it.=20

--=20
   Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games=20
   kmaroney at ungames.com | (212) 777-1190

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