I thought it was a given that there was "no Shakespeare" and that it was all because TN's father brought a copy of the folio back through time? If that is so, then isn't the whole Shakespeare cloning kinda pointless because, well, as far as I can tell, no one has solved as to who Shakespeare was ... yet?

Ah, but if you identify a culprit (worngly), clone them and then educate them with nothing but moth-eaten folios, then they'd still rigt a sub-Shakespearean dirge through nutrue, rather than nature. Y'see?



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

You know, I didn't even notice that discrepancy! But Thursday's father did say in LIAGB that he had only given 18 plays to the actor Shakespeare and Thursday did conclude that the guy must have started writing his own to bring the total to 32. So there was a Shakespeare and he did write some plays of his own, which were apparently good enough.

Alternate explanation: I think the "reality" of Thursday's world is flexible and subject to the needs of the narrative, plus whatever Jasper feels like. There are other instances in which different books contradict each other, especially in how the BookWorld works.

And if nothing else, he can just blame it on the chronoguard mucking around with time.

Now that I think about it over lunch, and having skimmed through the "special features" yesterday, I think this was really just a plot device to get Thursday and co. have a reason to go to Area 21 where Stig can pick-up a copy of the 'thal genome which is needed for the superhoop 88 to unfold as it unfolded.

Still, a bit disappointed over such a big bloophole, considering the whole issue was one of the central issues in TEA.

Oh well, no biggie. Just thought I missed something. Nothing a holesmith can't fix!

Ah, but remember, the latest in holesmithing techniques is to actually highlight and accentuate the hole, saying " 'Ho! I'm a hole, don't think about it!' " (WOLP, pg. 98)

But there was a shakespeare back then, so he got cloned.

I was probably really off topic with that but hey!



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