David's part during this story is quite fun.  To see him reprimanding and giving orders to his aunt and even calling her Elizabeth, and she accepts it all!!

I don't want to summarize my views of Leviathan at this point, as there is still so much to happen and I don't want to bother about spoilers.

However, my basic theme is that there are a lot of wonderful items and specific moments in the story, yet somehow this whole period leaves me feeling sort of icky.

As to those wonderful moments, though, this encounter between Barnabas and Paul is one of my favorites.  I LOVE that scene!  The coldness of Barnabas, even his smile and laugh, and then the realization of Paul when he learns what his most precious possession is - absolutely delicious!!

This first one doesn't bother me too much, given all of the suspension of disbelief needed in these stories, I find this quite acceptable.  However, the I Ching presumably isn't meant as a means of time travel.  When Barnabas used it, he thought he would be contacting Quentin's spirit.  He didn't know he would travel in time.

Even if the hexagram of change does mean a change of time, it wouldn't necessarily mean the same time.  Yet Barnabas and Julia both go back to 1897.  Since they went "back" in time, why does Petofi assume he'll go forward?  And why necessarily to 1969?  Yet both Charles in his attempt and then Petofi do, indeed, go to 1969.

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The more problematic one is Petofi's hand.  I think they forgot what they wrote about it.  The entire beginning of that story was "our" people's possession of the hand, Petofi's search for it, and then finally getting it reattached.  He went 100 years without it, and if he didn't get it back at that point would have died (presumably).

Now, I'm sure he still had formidable powers without it, but why are Kitty and Charles so afraid when he holds out the hand and asks if they remember what it can do.  They could never have known the Hand.

For a week or two now, I have been able to come here with Mozilla and haven't had to bother bringing up IE just for this.  What a pleasure (a couple of little details I've been meaning to ask about, though).

A little while ago I got in and was reading Robservations (in Mozilla).  When I then tried to access anything else, I got an error message that it's no longer working with Mozilla.  That was really weird, since I was using it at that moment!

Anyhow, here I am, back with IE.  I hope this is temporary.

This part of the story always infuriates me.  When Quentin encounters Beth, he knows that he looks like Petofi.  But there must be all sorts of private things between them, or even things about Jenny and his relationship with Laura that he could tell her as proof.  Lots of stuff from before anyone had even heard of Petofi.

And, even more so with Edward.  He thinks beforehand that Edward has known him his whole life, so surely he'll know.  But, does he remind him of anything from their childhood or some private family matter that Petofi couldn't possibly know?  Noooooo.  And on top of that, the things he does tell him are fantastic things like body switching and that he'll still be alive in 1969.

Quentin might not have the brains of Petofi, but I certainly didn't think he was THAT dumb!!

What I've never understood about Tate's "talent" is that when he draws the vase, it immediately appears before him.  When he draws the man, there he is.  So, how come when he drew Amanda, she appeared on a street somewhere and proceeded to live for two years before he accidentally encountered her?

And, how did she get her name or any knowledge of how to live in this world?  Look how puzzled the man is.  Aside from not remembering her past, she seems to have managed to get along rather well.

In the early days of this new version of the forum, you indicated that it would be possible to increase the font size of the posts.  I asked that you do it and several others agreed.

You've never replied to that, so I have no idea if you are able to or sometime intend to do it.

If you are planning on doing it at some point, I hope you give it a high priority.  I don't know what other things you're working on, but at the moment it's the only problem I can find with the site.