From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (g2002@prisco.info)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 04:12:17 MST
I have read the book again a few times and also went many times back to find
out exactly what happened. At the end of the book there is a passage about
Trixia (already defocused) like "... and then it had been when she reached
down on the comms link and made herself known to Sherkaner Underhill"
(quoting by memory). There is no detailed description that I have found
earlier in the book, only some passages about unexplained radio interference
that the collaborators of Sherkaner had discovered, imemdiately after the
radio show.
> The point which is never explained in the book is how exactly Sherkaner
> and the Spiders acquired this degree of control over the Focused.
> The humans had perhaps tipped their hand earlier when they intervened to
> break a code when Sherkaner's children were kidnapped. I could see that
> Sherkaner would be suspicious about the supposedly chance-in-a-million
> good luck that led to the code breaking. Then later we see him
> fooling around with "videomancy", a disreputable video technology
> (apparently the compound Spider eyes don't lend themselves to video)
> which has connotations of fortune telling. There are hints that this
> is involved somehow in establishing communication between the Spiders
> and the Focussed humans.
>
> Can anyone present a plausible story about what happened here? How did
> Sherky confirm a possible theory about the existence of humans? How could
> he have started communicating with the Focussed - was there a two way
> link set up?
> Hal
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