| 1 | [[WMG:The book consists of segments from multiple variations of the time stream.]] |
| 2 | Each "chapter" is from a slightly different version of reality, which explains details like the about-face of Green Taylor Simms's notes from "Let's talk about time traveling and spoilery stuff" to "Anyone who says you can time travel and do spoilery stuff is a whackjob", and the absence of Echo Lawrence from Chapter 42's list of contributors. |
| 3 | [[WMG:Echo was killed by the fire that Green Taylor Sims set at that gas station]] |
| 4 | She lived long enough for the police to question her about what happened, but she died soon afterword. The transcript of that interview became Echo's final contributions to the book. |
| 5 | [[WMG: Palahniuk’s later novel, ''Adjustment Day'', is a StealthSequel, and Green Taylor Sims eventually became Talbott Reynolds]] |
| 6 | Per Palahniuk, ‘‘Rant’’ was written with the intention of being a three-part series, and it’s possible ''Adjustment Day'' was intended to be the second part. Consider that both Green Taylor Sims and Talbott Reynolds were older men with considerable wealth, a strong penchant for future events and both turned out, toward the end of the books, to be almost supernaturally durable if not outright immortal. So what exactly got us from Sims to Reynolds? |
| 7 | |
| 8 | It’s implied by the end of ''Rant'' the timeline in which the novel took place disappeared into fiction over the course of repeated meddling in the past, and our timeline took its place. Sims’ behavior and attitude suggest several different reasons he may have done this himself, including a desire to become the only immortal as others figured out his living-paradox trick, his disdain for boosting over real experiences, etc. So, in a new timeline in which he was a wealthy man with no desirable history, he took a new name, Talbott Reynolds, and wiled away until he was kidnapped by Walter, who he may have even crossed paths with intentionally the same way he did Rant, and manipulate him into setting off the chain of events that led to America’s Least Wanted, The List and, eventually, Adjustment Day. |
| 9 |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/context.php
FollowingContext WMG / Rant
Go To
- Show Spoilers
- Night Vision
- Sticky Header
- Wide Load
