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LC and the Outer Gates

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morriswalters:
Well you could be right. But I was looking at the metaphor.  A giant looking down on the Lilliputians.

Kindler:

--- Quote from: morriswalters on March 05, 2020, 08:12:01 PM ---I think by Turn Coat LC was toast in terms of a current plot device.

--- End quote ---
Yeah, but I've always found it odd that Harry doesn't even think of using it to try to locate Thomas. It's alluded to, but never explained.

I don't think it would have worked anyway because the skinwalker could prevent it from doing so, but why is it not even mentioned? Harry's half out of his mind trying to track down Thomas, but doesn't use the one thing that's designed to find sh*t in Chicago?

Jim didn't have to use it. But it feels like too much of a deliberate choice to avoid mentioning it altogether. As far as I can recall, "Little Chicago" never appears in the book once.

....Just checked the EPUB file. No references to "model" regarding LC, nor Little Chicago itself. The only mention of it in TC is chapter 29, page 215 on Nook:

--- Quote ---"A long table in the middle of the room was currently covered by a canvas tarp, and the floor at the far end of the lab had a perfect circle of pure copper embedded in it."
--- End quote ---

I dunno about anyone else, but that's always felt off to me, especially after all the effort Harry put into building and maintaining it. It appears, finished, in Proven Guilty, White Night, and Small Favor and is completely avoided in the narrative after that? Even JK Rowling—She of the Convenient Excuses—added a line about Time Turners being inaccessible in book six or seven.

From either a Doylist or Watsonian perspective, the above quote is significant to the narrative because LC is still there, but for some undisclosed reason, Harry doesn't consider using it.

morriswalters:
Jim probably knew by then he was going to destroy it in Changes.  That didn't give him a lot of incentive to spend time on it.  As the Knight Harry isn't going to have all that much time going forward to keep it current as the timeline speeds up.  I think it was meant to foreshadow some other thing.

Kindler:
Well, agree to disagree. I think Jim would've written the fifty words handwaving the reason he couldn't use LC in Turn Coat rather than excluding it altogether if it wasn't meant to be a hint at something.

nedserD C B yrraH:
The main reason I think it was obscured intentionally is the similar way he described the memory of his blasting rod being taken. It was like a tarp thrown over something in the corner of his mind.

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