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Thursday the author and Thursday the protagonist
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.essex.ac.uk)
Date: November 26, 2005 04:35PM

Hey all, first time - woo!

I got myself in real tangles over this last night, so any enlightenment would be marvellous.

I read in Jasper's making of stuff that he imagined Thursday writing her own books whilst in the nursing home. My question is that as Thursday is an author, is there a generic somewhere who has been trained to be Thursday (assuuming the books have been published)?

Part of me wonders if autobiography would come under non-fiction, and considering we don't know that much about non-fiction than what we've gleaned from the washing machine instruction guy (he was fun :-D) I might just be jumping the gun. Do generics get trained to recite non-fiction? I'm confused.

Re: Thursday the author and Thursday the protagonist
Posted by: robert (---.syd.ops.aspac.uu.net)
Date: November 27, 2005 10:11PM

That's interesting.
We also have to consider that the books are published in languages other than English so that, either:

Thursday is multilingual, or;
Generics are used in the non-English editions.

Re: Thursday the author and Thursday the protagonist
Posted by: Puck (---.sfldmidn.dynamic.covad.net)
Date: November 27, 2005 10:53PM

I theorize multiple parallel universes.



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Re: Thursday the author and Thursday the protagonist
Posted by: Unbound Element (---.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net)
Date: February 11, 2006 10:11PM

I think generics did end up reciting (or acting, or whatever it is they do) her story in biographies. If you read the extra chapter in WOLP (I'm american, so it came included for me) they talk about having a biography commisioned just so they could have a generic trained to act like the man and have his expertise to aid them in Jurisfiction.

Unless I remember it wrong and made all that up, in which case I can and should be disregarded.



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Re: Thursday the author and Thursday the protagonist
Posted by: literaryloser (---.sktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca)
Date: May 25, 2006 05:42AM

I'm lost to, I think it's like making a copy of her by writing her autobiography, because if theres a book version of her exactly like her she can go back to the outland no problem because the copy of her in the biography can't leave, well it can but why would it...its a copy of Thursday, it knows better. Anyway I think it makes sense atleast for a book like this it sure does, but I have no idea if it would be considered fiction. I don't know if instructions are non-fiction really so I don't know if the washing machine guy is relavent. I think it will work...maybe JFF will tell us is Something Rotten.



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