"at 6s & 7s"

[RedBug]

Ok, I'm going to go *way* out on a limb now in this my only real
contribution to the "seventh Christmas of the War" conundrum (p.126).

As others have mentioned, it's seems so unlikely that TRP would make this
kind of mistake in GR. Anacronisms are one thing, but a miss-count ... nah.

I was reading Don Quixote the other night, after the SCOTW thing came up,
and came across Sancho saying something about things being "at sixes and
sevens." Now why do those two numbers sound so familiar? I thought to
myself. The phrase, as most of you probably know, means  to be in a state
of confusion. 

I find it interesting that, as in V. with the Benny-Rachel first-meet-twice
deal (which is preceded by references to warps in time's fabric and
which occurs at the Space-Time Agency), this episode is preceded by a
reference to wave mechanics and the collapse of the wave function which is
at the heart of the many-worlds theory.  But THAT may be stretching it.

However:

Roger (or the narrator?) counts seven Christmases/years. Immediately
following is Jessica's perspective, so full of threes, thirties, and her
count of six years of war. 

So, hey, Rog & Jess are "at sixes and sevens", right? I know this may be a
stellar example of over-analysing TRP, but I find it much less facile (and
much more interesting) than simply attributing it to "mistake" which I find
completely unacceptable.

Just a thought.

R. Ed Bug