Re: Mother Teresa
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.perm.iinet.net.au)
Date: September 23, 2004 05:28AM
Sorry to waste your precious time, Frog - my last post was meant as a joke in response to A.Salieri's comment!
And thanks for all the "alternate reality" posts - I probably should've asked a different question initially.
My quibble was:
For a person living in the real world in 2004, someone commenting about Mother Teresa dying young is a joke, because she was in her eighties when she died. However, as far as Thursday's comment about Mother Teresa in her world in 1988 is concerned, MT would've only been in her sixties at most when she died - ie quite young to die. So, I think Jasper made a mistake in choosing to make a "dying young" joke about Mother Teresa... funny in the real world in 2004, not particularly funny in 1988 in Thursday's world.
And if your explanation will be that she was born at a different time in that alternate reality, I don't like it (was it Thursday's father (? oops, can't remember) who ceased to exist due to a well timed knock on the door) - the MT of Thursday's reality had to be born at the same time as the MT in ours to still be Mother Teresa!
Anyway, it's not a major issue, I just wondered if anyone else was thrown by it like I was (being a real person reading a book in 2004, several years after the real Mother Teresa died) - and by the looks of it, the answer to that is "NO"!!