Date: Friday, 24 February 2012 09:37 am (UTC)From:graycardinal
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That is lovely, and a remarkably clever weaving together of the source canons. (I have been noodling absent-mindedly at the question of how one might reconcile the respective chronologies, and this is an angle that actually hadn't occurred to me. Which it clearly should have....)
Some purists may argue that he'd have given her his modern civilian alias rather than his original name, but I don't think that's a problem. Martha being Martha, even the alias would have been much too direct an allusion, and set her on the road to asking Awkward Questions.
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Date: Friday, 24 February 2012 09:37 am (UTC)From:That is lovely, and a remarkably clever weaving together of the source canons. (I have been noodling absent-mindedly at the question of how one might reconcile the respective chronologies, and this is an angle that actually hadn't occurred to me. Which it clearly should have....)
Some purists may argue that he'd have given her his modern civilian alias rather than his original name, but I don't think that's a problem. Martha being Martha, even the alias would have been much too direct an allusion, and set her on the road to asking Awkward Questions.
Bravo!