Julian answers “Does anyone recognize the kid who wanders...”

ThereWillBeBooks asked this question about Utopia Avenue:

Does anyone recognize the kid who wanders into Dean's trailer at the San Francisco festival from previous books?

Julian The parents mention that the child was “different” after a near-death bout with meningitis. Which effectively announces that he’s one of the benign “a…moreThe parents mention that the child was “different” after a near-death bout with meningitis. Which effectively announces that he’s one of the benign “atemporals” who reincarnate by inhabiting the bodies of children who have died, as happened to Holly Sykes’ brother Jacko in Bone Clocks. Giving his age as “only” 809 means he’s too young to be the millennia-old Xi Lo (or Esther Little, who in any event is seen with Marinus earlier in the book), but too old to be most of the other identified Horologists. Oshima, identified as one of the older Horologists, is about a century too young, and still alive in Bone Clocks inhabiting a body born in Kenya in the 1940s. So possibly one of the others, or an atemporal as yet unidentified, and possibly unaffiliated with Horology. (less)

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ThereWillBeBooks Yeah, I'm curious to see where he takes this thread. Total side note, The Mongolian is the entity from Ghostwritten, right? ...more
Aug 21, 2020 05:32PM · flag

Cari Really?! Thanks for pointing that out. I need to re-read Ghostwritten and Number9Dream. I do not remember them that well.
Aug 22, 2020 08:51PM · flag

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