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Discontinuity = clue? [GS sample ch spoilers]

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Shecky:

--- Quote from: pwoz on July 06, 2011, 03:46:23 PM ---I don't like you.

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No, I'm just enjoying some of the false assumptions. Very creative.

OlosBC:

--- Quote from: Shecky on July 06, 2011, 04:28:20 PM ---No, I'm just enjoying some of the false assumptions. Very creative.

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It's fun to speculate and then find out exactly how wrong you were.

KnightShade:

--- Quote from: Serack on July 06, 2011, 11:19:05 AM ---Collection of disparate facts from the sample chapters...


* Everyone in Chicagatory is in the prime of their life with no scars (well at least the 3 we know)
* The cars are vintage
* What Harry is percieving is being censored
* There's an angel garding the door to the "precinct"
* Somebody cheated when Harry was killed
* 3 people Harry loves will be harmed if he doesn't solve who killed him
* Harry is asked to write down a specific address to go to rather than to say something like "Mort's House"
* Harry is limited in what he can influence on the living plane, and has no magic
* Mindless specters want to eat Harry's ghost
* Memories can be used as a weapon on these Specters
* Harry was taken to Mort's old address, not the Duplex in DB
* Harry had forgoten that he had already seen Mort with a bicked head
* Mort stopped to take the time to grab a single Oreo before locking Harry out of his bedroom
* There is 1.5 feet of snow outside
* From Harry's perspective about an hour has gone by since he died, yet 6 months have passed
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One you might be missing... are we certain that ghosts are capable of issuing invitations over threshholds?
Could Harry's mind/subconscious/imagination be compensating for his expectations of needing an invitation?

spiritofair:
Stu says that ghosts can become unattached to time... maybe Dresden's ghost is in the past.  That would explain why Mort says weird things like, "It’s not enough that you have to keep dragging me into things in life. So now your stupid ghost shows up to do it, too?"  The tense of this is all wrong.  If ghosts can time travel, Mort would know it, so he wouldn't clue Harry in on it.  When did the blizzard hit Chicago during one of the past books?  Was it May?  If so, maybe that is "when" Harry's ghost is at right now.

There is some really weird discontinuities, though, regarding Mort's house.  Harry remembers being killed and saving Maggie and killing Susan BUT he doesn't remember Mort having been bald before or moving to the duplex.  So, if Harry is in the past, he remembers "powerful events" like Maggie and Chichen Itza, but doesn't remember things like Mort?  That doesn't make much sense.

Unless the stuff about Mort's house and lack of hair is an error, which is unlikely, Harry's ghost is in the past and while he remembers some things about right before he died (Maggie and the offing of the Red Court and his apartment getting burned down), he doesn't remember Mort moving.  Nothing else makes sense, but, what I'm saying doesn't make much sense, either!

But if they are in the past, how does Stu know Harry has been dead for 6 months.

This all doesn't make much sense at all.  That's about all I can conclude, LOL.

Agravaine:
Or Mort has read Neil Strauss' "The Game" and is working on his game.

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