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Date Posted: 19:40:13 10/01/10 Fri
Author: Lady Jay
Subject: The impression that I had was that the book was originally conceived as being different in that it would relate the story from Murtagh's POV. Somewhere recently I either read, or heard, that DG herself was somewhat surprised at Kenneth's appearance in the story once she started writing it. So fun to get the insight into her writing process and to be reminded that she doesn't have the whole story plotted out ahead of time--she can be just as surprised by some of the plot twists as we are. I'll be interested in seeing if we find out more about Kenneth in the Big Books.
In reply to: jayn 's message, "I'm just wanting to mention something that I haven't seen here and I'm not sure everyone realizes. If you know this, then great but if you didn't then it might change your view a tiny bit." on 13:59:51 10/01/10 Fri


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[> That's good, I've done the same 'WTH' about Kenneth myself since day1 with Exile. Especially since I've always liked Dougal so much. I think there could have been more depth to his character added with this expanded interaction with Geillis ~and~ this Kenneth-the whole idea behind the TT/SNP and the manipulation of Dougal and other revolutionary groups in the 18th century that I feel kind of let down that Kenneth was just plopped in there and then killed off before we got any taste or sense of how much more deeply the connection could be. ---> -- Missa, 10:30:40 10/02/10 Sat

In these few pages, it brought up the question J&C asked themselves so early on about whether you can change history. Did Geillis/Kenneth actually ~do~ just that by inciting Dougal, or would he have taken the same steps if not for Geillis? Are there other TT's among the other clans inciting ~them~ to rebel? How many ~other~ deliberate TT's are there in the 18th century manipulating the Scottish population into rebellion? How much bigger is/was the conspiracy? Perhaps Geillis isn't as nutty as Claire and Roger/Bree thought her? So many questions now that deliberate TT is not only possible, but apparently more widespread than we knew, in RE to the '45. But perhaps a GN isn't the proper avenue for exploring those deeper notions......

Or perhaps since all of the attempts at changing history failed (Culloden, J&C, Donner and his ilk), it's like Roger believed early on, you really can't change the actual course of history, but maybe just small things, individual outcomes?

Yeah, the Kenneth thing was lame, but did expand the discourse and possiblities, at least for me......

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