From: UnoJ
Subject: Re: I FOUND OUT WHAT GARMONBOZIA IS!!!(Spoiler, of course)
Organization: CIT
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 22:50:59 GMT

In article <BuJ0sE.9q1@acsu.buffalo.edu> v113np2v@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (George
D Emmons) writes:

>        When BOB takes WE's soul in 2022, he split it into two 
>parts: a malevolent side and a benevolent (or at least self-
>serving and not totally evil) side. The "face of God"?-
>BOB in the lodge? Now, the self-serving side becomes the OAM.
>The malevolent side becomes the LMFAP. Let's move backwards from
>the end of the show. WE/OAM can't meet up with WE(moving forward in
>time), so he hangs out in the lodge and waits until Windom's 
>somewhere else in the country. He comes out of the lodge to assist
>Coop in catching BOB out of revenge for splitting his soul. He
>keeps an eye on things when Coop gets there (The elevator in 1000)
>to make sure it is his former partner (The only person that can help
>him now, because he's the only person WE knows that hasn't been in 
>the Lodges and is pure enough to go toe-to-toe with BOB to save
>not only himself and Annie, but Windom as well. Then, he tries to
>get back to his whole self after BOB kills Laura (I want back all
>of Windom Earle, the two halves say in unison). BOB doesn't. He
>just gives them some pain & suffering, the things that WE fed on 
>in life. OAM/WE goes back to the world to try to f*ck up BOB's 
>plot to be Laura out of spite. He then (In the meeting...didn't
>it look likethe LMFAP (The malevolent side of Earle)was looking
>at the "Garmonbozia" with relish at the thought of having it?)
>tries to "Can it up" (Make himself whole again) at one of their 
>meetings. This may have involved actually getting the WE of that
>time to the lodge to help patch things up (Thus Windom's 
>disappearance and subsequent messed-up mental state in _My Life,
>My Tapes_) no dice. What happens with Windom? Maybe he gets saved
>in the finale of the story, maybe he's trapped like that forever.
>However, having Coop trying to save the soul of WE would be a great
>addition to the story. 
>                                     Just a thought...
>                                         George...
>"Would you like some coffee?"
>

George, I'm impressed. There is something that doesn't quite jive
with me though. Remember the detail that time may flow backwards in 
the Lodge, but it flows forward in our world. Even the souls/spirits
who inhabit the lodge are at time's mercy depending on where they are.
This was proven by me by the grandson who speaks in plain English
when he warns Laura about the "man behind the mask". We had no
previous knowledge of their presence in the lodge, otherwise this
point would have been sealed by the old woman's discourse with
Donna in the Tremond house. Therefore, how do you reconcile the fact
that WE soul may have been split in the last episode but in our
time he had gone psycho a long time ago? As you pointed out it is
referred to in Coop's tapes. On one plane the OAM and the LMFAP
were "split" from WE, but WE should have been normal until then.
How do you explain the OAM's confession that Bob _was_ his familiar?
If our future is the Lodge's past, it means that Bob was Mike's
familiar before he was split as part of WE, yet you assert that
this cannot be possible since Mike did not exist before then.
There are two books by Dan Simmons, _Hyperion_ and _The Fall of
Hyperion_ (yes, shades of Keats), where time arrows going into
opposite directions have a part in the story.


       UnoJ