. And that's where I have the problem, because it feels like there's some conscious motivation attributed to the universe here. It's not totally clear to me whether we're supposed to view it as fate
I almost had the same impression in Willis's "To Say Nothing of the Dog" where the male lead ended up sent way, way back in time to the building of the Cathedral not by his own choice... but it also helped move the plot along. And it always seemed like maybe the cat got through to the future the first time (though that was supposedly impossible) because time decided it was 'okay', and if it travelling through the future meant that housecats become not extinct, well isn't that changing time even if time is in the present? Ah well, it was mostly a comedy and I figured as soon as they told us that housecats were extinct that Princess Arjhimand would solve htat.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through "All Clear" and, yeah, I think there are too many failures to communicate going on that are a bit repetitive, but I'm enjoying it anyway.
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Date: Jan. 11th, 2011 09:41 pm (UTC)I almost had the same impression in Willis's "To Say Nothing of the Dog" where the male lead ended up sent way, way back in time to the building of the Cathedral not by his own choice... but it also helped move the plot along. And it always seemed like maybe the cat got through to the future the first time (though that was supposedly impossible) because time decided it was 'okay', and if it travelling through the future meant that housecats become not extinct, well isn't that changing time even if time is in the present? Ah well, it was mostly a comedy and I figured as soon as they told us that housecats were extinct that Princess Arjhimand would solve htat.
I'm about 2/3 of the way through "All Clear" and, yeah, I think there are too many failures to communicate going on that are a bit repetitive, but I'm enjoying it anyway.