Not to cast aspersions on dear Pickwick but who is Alan's father? Last I checked it takes two to make non-cloned offspring.

One of Thursday's mother's dodos?

Alan.

What! You mean noone else noticed that time-travel sub plot?!



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Turn the silliness to eleven!

I only noticed the one about Thursday finding the question for Mycroft's answer.



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

What time travel subplot?

And Thursday finding the question for Mycroft's answer?

Huh.

Please do inform

Thankyou



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Yes.... Uh, no.... Actually......I don't know.... Um, hang on.... What was the question again?

THursday finding teh answer to Mycroft's question is when teh CHeshire cat answers her question about beowulf (don't remember the page or the exact quotation, the book is not in front of me and i'm too lazy to go to my dorm and get it)
Thursday: Wait, this isn't the original Beowulf, is it?
Cat: Good lord, no, quite the reverse!
This originally appeared when discussing Theorital Nextian Mathematics and deriving a question from an answer. Mycroft wonders what the original question for "good lord, no, quite the reverse is" and thursday provides it for us a couple of chapters on.
But Dodo time travel subplot? What is this? I always thought alan's father was one of the feral dodos in the park from TN2. That was James' question on the way to goliath right before teh world became pink goo. THursday said it was one of them and he hung around teh house for a while, but she hadnt thought anything had happened. Dodos, apparently, can be even more secretive than teenagers. This might explain many of Alan's... charming and endearing personality traits. I do like Hamlet teh Alpha Dodo though.

I asked Jasper Fforde about this when he came to Ottawa a few weeks ago. He mentioned the feral dodos that live in the park and suggested Pickwick might have snuck out one night.

Egg-sacktly.

A fowl yolk! Duck!

Yes. The bit about the dodo in the park is in the US edition of LIAGB, but not in the british edition, in which the question relates instead to Thurday's father.