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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Jul 13, 2020 0:49:31 GMT -5
I want to highlight a small chronological mystery in File Under 13. Apparently something important happened thirty-eight years before the main events narrated in ATWQ. This date is quoted twice in history (I just checked my personal notes for this). There was a car racing award, and Hans Mann's mother married his father. Hans's mother is probably a member of VFD, as she participated in a play in which there was a secret message (the code was preliminary to the sebald code). But I was unable to elaborate any theory from there at the time. I noted that this must have happened before the war in which the colonel fought. Now I imagine that if that war was something like the second world war, the period when the wedding and the car race took place was the inter-war period, something similar to the 1920s (I believe there was a second world war in the universe of ASOUE, because according to Lemony there was a "first" world war, so it makes no sense to believe that anyone would call a world war "first" unless there had already been a "second". At the time of 1914, that war was only called of "the great war.") I also noted that around this time it must have been the birth of Ishmael and perhaps the birth of Hangfire. But that was just speculation.
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