Narrative Conspiracies

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Greg Montalbano writes:
> Jody Porter [Re: Cherrycoke]:
> >He's a spook. He was haunting M&D during their career. Now that Mason's
> >gone, well, old habits die hard.
> That last quote suggests (if the cagey old bastard isn't a TOTAL fabricator)
> that Cherrycoke might indeed have been tossed into the action by Them to
> observe the observers, but WITHOUT his knowledge -- "They" might have been
> counting on his natural propensities.

The Jesuits were historically the group that excelled at this observing
and reporting to superiors (remember V.?)... Is it possible that the
Rev'd hooked up with them, who were perhaps in extemporaneous
collaboration with the Company for their own purposes? He could have
been following and reporting on M&D on their African voyage as a trial
run for determining their fitness to the far more important purpose in
America (and their capacity to follow orders without too many
questions), where the Jesuits (if not the Company) had an immediate
interest. This possible link to the Jesuits would also explain Wicks'
skepticism towards his "Parsonickal Disguise".  I'm far from finishing
M&D at this point (but not in a hurry), so my apologies if these
speculations run counter to later events.

Murthy

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Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
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