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Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net)
Date: February 29, 2004 04:01AM
No, No...Thurs was born on a Thursday, her mother , Wednesday, was born on a Sunday and Anton was born on a Monday. We don't know about Joffy and of course her father was never born at all. Neither were her husband or grandfather. Ah, SO-12, our favourite team of law enforcers. Did I mention my sister has a near eidetic memory?
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well her husband WAS born. he just died at the age of two.
I thought it was spellt out quite plainly the number of children that Thursday will have. but I don't want to spoil the surprise later on if you haven't figured it out.
I read American Gods and thought it was great. I have been on hold with my library for some time for The Well of Lost Plots. Has it not been published yet?
All this debate is interesting but slightly misses the point that Thursday's children won't be Nexts they will be Parke-Laines and therefore the Next family history is sort of irrelevent!
..but having siad tht Thursday's Mum wasn't a Next till she got married - so who knows! (anyone know her maiden name btw?)
Strikes me that the bit at the end of TEA with the "familiar" ChronoGuard tagging along behind Lavoisier was so obviously their son that it constitutes no kind of spoiler to bring it up now!
Re: April Next in the family tree
Surely this is the sister of Thursday's father not of Mycroft - she was born when the ChronoGuard foiled her father's conception by a knock at the door.