It seems that a demon abducted Valeria because of an impulsive curse by a single Johannine, not because of any Johannine plot, but I will confirm or disconfirm this before finishing the current rereading of the novel, probably tomorrow.
Let us finish today with a hypothetical time travel paradox. If the Matucheks arrive in the hell universe early enough to prevent Valeria's kidnapper from departing on his kidnapping mission, then what happens?
I suggest that the Matucheks return to a goetic universe in which:
Valeria was not kidnapped;
the Matucheks did not set off to rescue her;
thus, they have duplicated themselves.
However, they have left behind them a goetic universe in which:
Valeria was kidnapped;
her parents set off to rescue her and did not return;
Valeria was taken to the hell universe and was not rescued, at least not by her parents.
That is the best that I can come up with tonight.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It's complications like these which makes trying to make sense of time traveling so painful to one's head! (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean
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