So, one has to wonder. Is Thursday included in Philip Jose Farmer's Wold-Newton family tree somewhere?

On the other hand, & more importantly, Farmer wrote a series of books & stories, explaining how all the great fictional characters lived in the same world & were related to each other. Now countless others regularly add to this mythos. Theoretically, these books must exist in Thursday's world. How to they cope with such complications? Are the Wold-Newton books a busman's holiday for fictional characters? The mind boggles!

Lessee.... can't comment on that one specifically, never having heard of PJF... but I think some mention of 'tribute' stories is made somewhere - additional charachters are created, and if they do a good job, and if, for example, the current Oliver Twist should retire then there is a chance for the character who played Oliver in the little known "Oliver II - the Revenge of the Baker" could be asked to step up and fill his boots.

Its just another book.... they don't have to be mutally consistant... or even make sense.

Now... wheter TEA etc are in the Library is another question...

Rob



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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Of course TEA etc. are in the library--and a special copy of Godel, Escher, Bach is located beside them to help bookjumpers in dealing with the strange loops that arise when bookjumping into a book that contains the library you started in…

YOU'VE READ GODEL ESCHER BACH TOO!!!

Yay! Isn't it a great book?

<takes a deep, calming breath>

sorry, got a little excited...



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Metaphors be with you!