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Digest number lineDigest - 25 Feb 2007 to 26 Feb 2007 (#2007-49)
Mon, 26 Feb 2007
There are 3 messages totalling 119 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Request for a recording - Recovery
2. Sorry!!!
3. Nick after Egypt
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:02:41 +0000
From: Luicia <luicia1705@y.......>
Subject: Re: Request for a recording - Recovery
Hiya!
I got that recorded for you... its on DVD -R in EP format so hopefully that
won't be an issue. Just let me know the address and I'll send it on during the
week.
Luicia
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" John Lennon
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:15:26 +0000
From: Luicia <luicia1705@y.......>
Subject: Sorry!!!
APOLOGIES!!! This was meant to go off list.
Sorry!!
Luicia <luicia1705@y.......> wrote: Hiya!
I got that recorded for you... its on DVD -R in EP format so hopefully that
won't be an issue. Just let me know the address and I'll send it on during the
week.
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans" John Lennon
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:35:31 -0800
From: "Amy R." <akr@l.......>
Subject: Re: Nick after Egypt
In the 02/25/07 digest, Megan Hull <mistrydder@y.......> wrote:
><<Wow, Nick WAS a busy boy, wasn't he? Hm.... maybe we need a bit
>of fic explaining exactly WHY he felt the need to criss-cross the globe.>>
New fiction is always an excellent idea! :-) And something
I've always found interesting in Dorothy's illustrated, in-depth,
costume-based timeline
(http://www.loftworks.com/FK/Episodes/FK_Timeline/fktimeline.html) as
well as my little script-based one (thanks, Cloud!
http://users.lmi.net/akr/fk/timeline/FKtimeline.htm), is the presence
of *gaps*. For example, the 1930s are canonically blank. We have no
canon on what Nick was doing between "Father's Day" and "Father
Figure," as the whole world fell into war. Another blank decade is
c.1790-c.1805, from Nick approaching his worst in "Blood Money" to
Nick approaching his best in "If Looks Could Kill." And fifty years
blank between "Francesca" and "Blood Money," and fifty between "Last
Act and "Undue Process," and almost a century between "Sons of
Belial" and "Dying to Know You," which is the pivotal period in which
Nick first decided to kill "only the guilty" (per "Love You to Death").
Anyway, wonderful holes to fill with fanfiction!
I think there are three main reasons behind Nick's apparent
wanderlust: 1) running away from Lacroix, as in the "Father's Day"
flashbacks, 2) running toward a cure, as in the "1966" flashbacks,
and 3) the exigencies of vampirism -- not getting caught, not
over-hunting, "the Dorian Gray syndrome" -- as in the "Hunters" flashbacks.
That third reason plays into the whole mythology of "moving on"
for an FK vampire, which we see not only in Lacroix's constant
prodding of Nick, and especially his seasonal attempts to dislodge
Nick from Toronto (Lacroix's actions in DK, KI and LK are all
attempts to persuade Nick to move on, I think, with different
tactics), but also in Aristotle's vocation ("Forward into the Past"),
Janette's decision ("The Human Factor"), and, arguably,
Vachon. Vachon runs from the Inca, of course, and stops running (at
least for a little while) after the Inca is dead, but while he would
not be moved by the first two of Nick's motivations, he and his whole
crew must be equally affected by the third.
When Nick is near Khartoum (in modern Sudan) in the "Faithful
Followers" flashbacks, he is between the European mainland flashbacks
of "Jane Doe" and "Baby, Baby." Since he is called to the dig by
Thomas, and then would perhaps wish to flee from such a horrific
scene, or to take his friend's drained body home to her family,
"Faithful Followers" probably supplies enough material in itself to
explain that particular set of to-and-fro-ing ... if anyone would
like to take it up in a story? Nick's friend Helen Ruskin-Slater,
before her death, after her death? Pioneering female archaeologist,
probably upper-crust English?
Funny thing, though, that we never really got a "Dorian Gray
syndrome" plot, where a normal, mortal human who doesn't know about
vampires noticed that Nick isn't aging, forcing him to move on. Or
am I forgetting an episode?
Amy R., Knightie
akr@l.......
Bright Knight: http://users.LMI.net/akr/fk/
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