ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[David Morris]

On 3/26/07, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Probably the only ting we can say with any certainty about whether the Chums are 'real' or not, is that they reside somewhere in between the real and the fictional and that the point at which they reside does not remain static.  I think Tore put it best when he described the Chums as 'sliding back and forth along a scale between fiction and reality' (I'm paraphrasing him).

This is spoilerish, so delete now if so inclined...


The Chum's level of fictitiousness become very explicit when, in order
to escape the feared corruption of their own organization by the
Visitors, they actively create a meta-life: the Harmonica Academy.  It
is a world created by them which doesn't even attempt realism, but is
explicitly a place of escape.

David Morris