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lupus
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The sad smiley is mostly for me -i never thought I'd be the kind of reader who looks for inconsistencies in a book they like.
But since I've been forced to do a very very close reading of [I]Survivor[/I], I came across this one, and I'm gonna share:
"In front of me is Crypt 678, Trevor Hollis, age twenty-four, survived by his mother and father and his sister." (253)

" 'Our mom killed herself because she had the same kind of dreams,' Fertility says. 'Suicide is an old family tradition for us.' "(213)

Not that it matters. Smile

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Don't have the book in front of me to check facts, but can we assume that Trevor died before his mother?

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I don't think so. Tender visited the crypt, what, a week after Trevor died? Fertility tells him about the death of her mother about a week after they first met. If her mother had died during these 2 weeks, I believe that Fertility would have talked about it differently. It's not impossible, mind you. I just think that Chuck mentioned the mother in the grieving relatives out of momentum, then forgot about that and 'suicided' her later.

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good eye lupus, not many people would catch that. probably is just a mistake.

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Chuck... make a mistake in one of his books? That's unpossible!

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of course, because chuck's a super human person.
i hear that he never sleeps
i hear that he sprinkles his pancakes with poison to build up his tolerence.
i hear that he is responsible for the crop circles.
i hear that he sold his soul for a free liver and onion dinner(beverage not included).

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Why on earth would one sell his soul for a free liver and onion dinner(beverage not included)? I mean, it's [i]free[/i]?

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Perhaps I need to go back to bed, because that was so fucking funny I'm crying.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by trypdwyre [/i]
[B]good eye lupus, not many people would catch that. probably is just a mistake. [/B][/QUOTE]

I don't usually scrutinise things that much. But because of the bloody essay I've read every Chucky novel again and again (gooood!) keeping notes and jotting down stuff (baaaad!).
Hence questions like Marla & phone calls, and whatever else I might ask in the future.
Help a poor student and give me your opinion.
And I will credit the Cult in my acknowledgements Smile

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Why on earth would one sell his soul for a free liver and onion dinner(beverage not included)? I mean, it's free?

well why would he make crop circles? why would he build up his immunity to poison?
because he can, that's why.[img]http://nowff.hypermart.net/gfx/foy_1002_04.jpg[/img]
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But there are valid reasons to build up your resistance to poison and for making crop circles. There is no valid reason to eating liver and onions (free or otherwise.) Everyone knows you eat liver with bacon.

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ok then, let me simplify my previous response.

because he can.

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He borrowed Michael J. Fox's Dolorean one time and shot Kennedy then he went back to shoot Oswald so the case would never be solved and he will forever go as being "innocent"

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I heard he sleeps not just upside down, but DOUBLE upside down! Who the hell does that!

In the words of a true Chuck fan:
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I heard he and Dick Clark get together on the weekends to eat new born babies so they can be immortal for all eternity.

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Nope, Fertility is not omnipotent... just omniscient.
I'd enjoy an undead mother - of course Trevor would have to be undead as well and things could get delightfully complicated. But I really don't think this is the case.

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thats more a glipse than a mistake. well noticed and you must have read the book for mistakes to notice that lol

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