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The time references definitely seem off to me, unless I missed something?
]]>I also noticed - only on my reread! - that Bob tells Mo about the vampires twice - and she's surprised, the second time, so she's obviously forgotten all about the previous conversation. Basil's geas is strong! How come some of the characters manage to retain the knowledge about vampires, though?
What's COBWEB MAZE, btw? As far as I can tell it turns up for the first time sometime in the middle or so of TRC, and I seem to have missed the explanation - if there was any.
]]>Possibly from a short story or novella that Charlie hasn't written yet. He has mentioned that he plans to write some, and they usually fit in between the novels.
]]>Also, saw this yesterday; Pinky and the Brain have finally reached the Breaking Point. So that's what happened to them.
]]>I can seem them doing it, but more out of convenience rather than brains. Executions are too monitored and recorded. It'd be better to take victims on the fringes of society.
]]>From some descriptions of Wall Street in the USA, that's also not an accident. Dropping off some work at 'Close of Business' that you've had hanging around all day is part of the culture.
]]>I think that it eats souls, including various 'demons'. Remember that 'This machine kills demons' is a sticker on the case, not known to be true. Mo's problem is that the thing just wants to feed, and she's got to restrain it.
]]>My theory is that Old George created her. It's clear that she's running some glamours (vamps have level 2; she was able to fool vamps). It was mentioned in the novel that Old George's driver and others were extremely thoroughly glamoured, over time.
]]>What surprised me is that I had thought that the archives warehouse was a regular hangout for Basil. He should have had it warded - at the very, very least, some warning wards. Especially as Old George wants to kill him.
]]>Speaking of identity stuff: Bob seems to have started to identify as a hungry ghost (during the dinner date with Mhari: "Score: hungry ghosts: one; vampires: nil.") He's also relaxed in a slightly disturbing way about killing. While in book four he's still taking time out before the climax of the story to tell us how much he hates killing, in TRC he gets a bit startled by Janet and immediately, reflexively tries to eat her soul. And while that may be forgiveable because she did attack him, he's at least semi-ready to try again very soon afterwards, despite the situation, at that point, already looking less immediately threatening. Slipperly slope, Bob...
]]>Laws are by nature social constructs. No society, no laws.
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