VV(2) Impersonations was Re: Signal bleed
jill
grladams at teleport.com
Wed Oct 18 09:10:35 CDT 2000
Hello,
Do these impersonations mean that Stencil, engrossed in diaries, the quest,
etc, is imagining himself as the characters in the subsequent chapters?
Iknowiknow there's no "real" answer, but just what does the information
about his quick change artist powers suggest about the titles of the
chapters?
-jill
Don Corathers wrote:
>
> I'm using the Harper & Row Perennial Library edition, which seems to have the same page numbers as the hostlist. Possibly reproducing that list here will be helpful.
>
> VV(1): Oct 2/(pp. 9-30): Thomas Eckhardt
> VV(2): Oct 16/(pp. 30-43): cj hurtt
> VV(3): Oct 30/(pp. 44-60): Don 'Kingpin' Corathers
> VV(4): Nov 13/(pp. 61-76): Dedalus
> VV(5): Nov 27/(pp.77-94): Jill
> VV(6): Dec 11/(pp. 95-110): Ben McLeod
> VV(7): Jan 8/(pp. 111-133): JB Frame
> VV(8): Jan 22/(pp. 134-151): Michael Perez
>
> Which translates as:
>
> 1 = Chapter 1, Sections I-III
> 2 = Chapter 1, Sections IV-V
> 3 = Chapter 2
> 4 = Chapter 3, Impersonations I-III
> 5 = Chapter 3, Impersonations IV-VIII
> 6 = Chapter 4, the whole damn nose job and everything in it
> 7 = Chapter 5
> 8 = Chapter 6
>
> Don
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