it's only wrong if you get caught
Sep. 6th, 2008 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
recordOkay, I still intend to write something about The Gravedigger's Daughter, but I have this theory about The Time Traveler's Wife that I want to sketch out before I forget.
There's more to this story than meets the eye. The crucial part is when adult Henry teaches child-Henry how to pick pockets, break into places, beat people up, etc. Although the adult Henry who's teaching the child-Henry remembers an adult Henry having taught him in turn, doesn't it logically follow that there was an ur-Henry who wished an older Henry HAD taught him to do these things, and decided to do so at some point?
So, IF there was an ur-Henry who started mucking about with the past, what if that Henry had been in love with Claire...who ended up not loving him. And quite possibly married to Gomez.
Maybe they had a brief affair. Maybe they were friends. And what if she mentioned that meadow by her childhood home...maybe even planted the seed of the idea that she had spent time there, there would have been privacy, something along those lines?
Just putting this out there. Maybe I'll write a paper on it someday. Also: I think Henry was a bastard for telling Claire he'd see her again, as an old woman. Don't you?
Also: would you have sex with yourself, if you were in Henry's shoes? And what do you think that would be like?
There's more to this story than meets the eye. The crucial part is when adult Henry teaches child-Henry how to pick pockets, break into places, beat people up, etc. Although the adult Henry who's teaching the child-Henry remembers an adult Henry having taught him in turn, doesn't it logically follow that there was an ur-Henry who wished an older Henry HAD taught him to do these things, and decided to do so at some point?
So, IF there was an ur-Henry who started mucking about with the past, what if that Henry had been in love with Claire...who ended up not loving him. And quite possibly married to Gomez.
Maybe they had a brief affair. Maybe they were friends. And what if she mentioned that meadow by her childhood home...maybe even planted the seed of the idea that she had spent time there, there would have been privacy, something along those lines?
Just putting this out there. Maybe I'll write a paper on it someday. Also: I think Henry was a bastard for telling Claire he'd see her again, as an old woman. Don't you?
Also: would you have sex with yourself, if you were in Henry's shoes? And what do you think that would be like?