mkmfpwfan Wrote:I saw in the current May newsletter that Jack was 14 in 1983. I then noted that I am 4 years older than Jack. Then I may have come across a possible nugget here. If I remember the Monroe incident happened in 1968 the same year of Jacks birth. I mean where was Jack actually born? Does he have a direct connection to Monroe himself. It would make some sense to me on why he was the chosen one. Sorry if I am rehashing a previous discussion or if my point is false lol.------Mark
AlvinFox Wrote:Oh, yeah. BIG spoiler. I'm warning you. I probably shouldn't be typing this. [spoiler]Jack's conception and birth was the Ally's answer to Rasalom's rebirth. Although Jack wasn't the only one. He just has the most potential.[/spoiler]
Libby Wrote:Where did that come from? Was it written, or is it a theory? It is brilliant, where ever it is from!
AlvinFox Wrote:Geez. I warned you. That was in By the Sword. I should edit that into the above post.
mkmfpwfan Wrote:It's ok I am only as far as Harbingers but I tend to try and think ahead lol----Mark
AlvinFox Wrote:Oh, yeah. BIG spoiler from By the Sword. I'm warning you. I probably shouldn't be typing this. [SPOILER]Jack's conception and birth was the Ally's answer to Rasalom's rebirth. Although Jack wasn't the only one. He just has the most potential.[/SPOILER]
John_M Wrote:I read it (I am one of those who never minds knowing the plot outcome before watching the movie or reading the book) and it rings true all the way. Indeed, that would make perfect sense.
One of the many things I love about the Adversary Cycle and the RJ books is how carefully foreshadowed so many things are throughout them. Indeed, I have reread the whole cycle several times and am impressed at how skilfully these foreshadowings are woven into the books. It wasn't until the second time through the cycle that I noticed the incident, near the beginning of Hosts, where the young man on the street accosts Jack and Kate and says as if in a trance, "A spear has no branches." Or the mention, in Conspiracies, in an argument between "Sal Roma" and his Otherness familiar Mauricio, of "the Lady", who actually does not enter the narrative directly until the next novel (Hosts). The whole mythos of the Conflict has become one of my favorites, and ranks with Middle Earth, the Dune universe, and the Lovecraft mythos.