Seymour
Graham Preston (ac109@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 22:39:19 -0600 (CST)
Hi(!)
After reading through S:AI again, I noticed something. Buddy comments on
Seymour's habit of looking at his hankerchief after blowing his name, as
if to find Christ or something. In the classic BBC sci-fi comedy series,
"Red Dwarf", the main character--the last man alive-- has this habit of
looking at his hankerchief after blowing into it as if to find the Mona
Lisa (or something along those lines). Wouldn't it be the ultimate irony
that Seymour is the last man alive, under-achieving, floating in space,
and having a thing for vindaloo?
How is this possible to have Seynour alive, 3 million years in the future,
while he committed suicide in 1948? One possibility is that some one
rescued him as an infant and two Seymours (from 2 dimensions) were formed.
Then that some one goes into the future and puts him in a box, underneath
a pool tablein Scotland. Anyone familiar with the show, could believe
this by bending the Red Dwarf timeline a bit. It would kind of be like an
Ace Rimmer/Arnold Rimmer thing except it would be a Seymour Glass/Dave
Lister thing.
Comments? Concerns? Rants? Raves?
Graham-- king of the Great White North
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