Ok, I don't get this one. Thursday's dad and Landen have both been eradicated, right? Well, how come they still get to see Mr. Next but Landen is never seen. Is this just because of the time travel abilitie Thursday's dad possesses?

Another little thing. Ever notice that Granny Next, Thursday's mom and Thursday have all had eradicated husbands. Odd, isn't it? What a horrible thing to be hereditary!

It basically has to do with the fact that Thursday's Dad is a cronoguard he knows how to get around these things, unlike Landon who is pretty much helpless. So you pretty much right on...and read Something Rotten it adds a good twist to your second comment (but read the books in order of course)



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I think you are on the right track. See, the eradication of Landen was not done in a way that he never existed, but died at a time long before his first encounter with Thursday.

This means that eradication is a two-part process: constructing a coherent timeline without the eradicee, and geting rid of him personally. I think Thursday's dad found out about this early enough to evade beeing brought to non-existence, but he already had no more timeline to exist in. Thus beeing restricted to wander in time and beeing anywhere but the place he would have been entitled to.

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Aha, very interesting, thanks everyone!

Now, I'm in the middle of "Something Rotten." I just read the chapted "Eradications Anonymous", what was with those people??

Goliath is uneradicating people, but nobody else actually remembers them ever being gone...



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That's what was confusing me, yeah. Why is it, do you think, that they don't remember?

Because to uneradicate the person, they have to change the timeline back to a time when the person has always been there, so most people now remember that timeline in which the person was never gone.

But time travel in these books is as much a matter of jumping back and forth across parallel times as it is going forwards or backwards in time, and they are able to pull people from one timeline to another. It wouldn't do Goliath any good to uneradicate someone and have their loved one completely unaware that anything had been happened--they are only doing it to make the loved ones grateful or to get something out of them. So they have to take the loved one directly across timelines so that when the uneradication occurrs, the loved one will still be aware the person was gone. Meanwhile, everyone else is part of the new timeline in which the person has always been there.

Its hard to explain mostly because its not real so you can't give a good example but when someone is uneradicated its kind of like it never happened (atleast to the person who was erradicated) but to the person who knew about the erradication there time line still has that in it.



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Thanks for the explanations! Much appreciated. :)