I rather liked the idea that Vicki and Jeff had children back in the 18th century, and that Victoria was their descendant.
I've noticed here and there in recent years plot ideas where someone becomes his own ancestor. How would a union between two people result, generations later, in all the genes rearranging themselves back into the exact same person, though? Genes mingle and produce different combinations and different traits and different people. The more generations go by, the more changes. This kind of thing crops up in science fiction, so I've had a little time to think about it. It's SF parodies though, from what I can tell so far, Red Dwarf and Futurama. Hard SF wouldn't do this, I think.
Not trying to give you a hard time, Zahir; I've just had this on my mind occasionally.
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MB, midnite....
By the way, the Spoiler box doesn't seem to be working for me. By the time I see it, and my red alert goes off in my head and says to stop reading, I'm already partway through. I wonder if anyone else has that problem. It's like reaction time when you're driving, I guess. The only thing I can think of is allowing a few blank lines before the spoiler, but then what's a spoiler for me is dofferent than for someone else, and most of mine won't even get boxed. It's 1968 for me. So i'll just have to make do as best I can.
(Discussion of the spoiler box situation has been moved to the Testing board and to the topic "Re: Spoiler Box Contents Always On Display". --MB
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