I was musing on this footnotherphone device: it is made for contact for book characters, right? So how did Snell managed to contact Thursday the first time around? She was not in the book at that time. Wait a sec...she IS a book character...my head spins. Medication gone...all gone.

I contemplated that as well. But then I stopped, as it was giving me a headache and I just chalked it up to be another Jasperism that would be explained in WOLP.

Sounds about right - just ignore it.

Try looking at it like this:

The footnoterphone, conceptually, is a radio for books. It connects vast distances in L-space through some unexplained mechanism. I have no idea how radio waves are turned into sound, but I accept that it happens. Furthermore, radio waves can be turned into digital impulses of electrical current (internet radio) or even light (if it goes through a fibre-optic cable). The message is simply turned from one carrier signal to another that can be understood by the recipient.

The mechanism I propose therefore is that Snell does indeed use the footnoterphone to carry his message to Thursday, but that this is then translated into some out-world signal (evidence suggests as a voice inside Thursday's head). This facility would be useful for Jurisfiction for various reasons - not least when operatives are acting outside of a book. Formatting convention in the chronicles of the Nextian world would place these messages as footnotes in the text, for clarity. It in no way suggests Thursday is fictional.

As a better comparison - you send instructions to your computer by hitting the keyboard (if running Microsoft, with your head) but mercifully it doesn't send messages to you by hitting you back.

does this stand up to scrutiny or am I mad?



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kinda reminds me of the episode of Gilligans Island where he was receiving radio signals thru his dental fillings

Yup, makes sense.

Just thinking about the keyboard stricking back...ugh (shivers)

Why should your suggestion about this matter standing up to scrutiny and you being mad be considered mutually exclusive?

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Fair point...



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My Son's cordless keyboard fell off the desk and hit him on the foot.... does that count?

I hope to one day become a book character so I can have a Footnoterphone of my very owe :)

Auntie

Did he understand the message - if not, then it's definitely Microsoft trying to communicate...



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all right smarty trousers~!
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I've just read the first time we see the footernoterphone used and noticed that Snell asks about Cordelia Flakk,

"Who was that disturbingly attractive woman in the tight pink sweater?"

I thought it only did sound not vision?



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actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

I think it only does text, rather than either sound or vision - and as Thursday's narrative mentions Flakk's attire, it seems reasonable to suggest that he could read it through that...



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