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It's just occurred that the whole premis of this book, and possibly the whole TN series, has been devised by working backwards from the last three lines in chapter 42...
Posted by: Kettle of Fish (---.eburwd6.vic.optusnet.com.au)
Date: October 05, 2004 08:55AM
I wish in the ambush in the forrest, the clones hadn't automatically tried to kill each other. I guess it aids the story though, even if an urge to kill the French isn't genetic (whereas a flair for writing seems more believeable)
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The inimical is often more instructive than the benign.
So between screams, try to pay attention.
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Somehow I feel like there is a whole history with these clones. I can imagine Goliath indoctrinating these Napoleons and Wellingtons to hate each other from when they were born... decanted... whatevered. Btw, dd anyone else think that the comment about Les Rosbifs was a reference to Woody Allen's Love and Death ("No, no! We must invent Napoleon before the British invent Beef Wellington!")? Or maybe I'm just looking too deep. THen again, this is JFf, so one can never be sure
~Liz