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* GeniusBonus: Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: [[spoiler:Roche Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in 1348, the past, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.]] There are plenty of others.
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* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1992, and the action takes place in 2055, but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who comes out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
** American guests refuse to follow epidemic orders and Dunworthy reflects that this behavior is why so many Americans died in the previous pandemic - the fictional one would that would have happened about 2020.
* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1992, and the action takes place in 2055, but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who comes out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
** American guests refuse to follow epidemic orders and Dunworthy reflects that this behavior is why so many Americans died in the previous pandemic - the fictional one would that would have happened about 2020.
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** And, as the final kick in the teeth, [[spoiler: ''she just barely manages to make it home.'' Were it not due to an incredible effort from the individuals of the present timeline, and an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, [[ShaggyDogStory Kivrin would have been left in the past, completely alone and unable to return to her friends and loved ones in the present]]]].
* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1992, and the action takes place in 2055, but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who comes out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
** American guests refuse to follow epidemic orders and Dunworthy reflects that this behavior is why so many Americans died in the previous pandemic - the fictional one would that would have happened about 2020.present]]]].
* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1992, and the action takes place in 2055, but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who comes out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
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** And, as the final kick in the teeth, [[spoiler: ''she just barely manages to make it home.'' Were it not due to an incredible effort from the individuals of the present timeline, and an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, [[ShaggyDogStory Kivrin would have been left in the past, completely alone and unable to return to her friends and loved ones in the present]]]].present]]]].
* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1990 but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who come out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
** American guests refuse to follow epidemic orders and Dunworthy reflects that this behavior is why so many American died in the previous pandemic - the one would that would have happend about 2020.
* LifeImitatesArt: The novel was published in 1990 but "The Pandemic" in the fictional recent past seems to line up extremely well with the covid-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.
** Mary Ahrens talks about visiting Egypt during the pandemic when she was 19. If she were 19 in 2020 that would make her about 54 during the action of the novel - a plausible age for a senior physician and Colin's "favorite great-aunt".
** An elderly doctor who come out of retirement bores Dunworthy with tales about working conditions during "The Pandemic". Plausibly this doctor is about seventy is 2055 and thirty-five in 2020.
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** [[spoiler: nearly dies from influenza as soon as she makes it to the past.]]
** [[spoiler: is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia.]]
** [[spoiler: turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']]
** [[spoiler: is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]]
** [[spoiler: misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]]
** [[spoiler: resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']]
** [[spoiler: discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]]
** [[spoiler: gets her ribs kicked in by a delirious Father Roche, leaving her in enough agony that she can't ring the bell to announce his passing as a DueToTheDead, let alone walk to the drop.]]
** [[spoiler: is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia.]]
** [[spoiler: turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']]
** [[spoiler: is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]]
** [[spoiler: misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]]
** [[spoiler: resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']]
** [[spoiler: discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]]
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* GeniusBonus: Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: [[spoiler:Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in 1348, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.]] There are plenty of others.others.
* TheWoobie: Holy shit, Kivrin Engle. Let's tally, shall we? She:
** [[spoiler: nearly dies from influenza as soon as she makes it to the past.]]
** [[spoiler: is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia.]]
** [[spoiler: turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']]
** [[spoiler: is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]]
** [[spoiler: misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]]
** [[spoiler: resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']]
** [[spoiler: discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]]
** [[spoiler: gets her ribs kicked in by a delirious Father Roche, leaving her in enough agony that she can't ring the bell to announce his passing as a DueToTheDead, let alone walk to the drop.]]
** And, as the final kick in the teeth, [[spoiler: ''she just barely manages to make it home.'' Were it not due to an incredible effort from the individuals of the present timeline, and an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, [[ShaggyDogStory Kivrin would have been left in the past, completely alone and unable to return to her friends and loved ones in the present]]]].
* TheWoobie: Holy shit, Kivrin Engle. Let's tally, shall we? She:
** [[spoiler: nearly dies from influenza as soon as she makes it to the past.]]
** [[spoiler: is put under intense scrutiny from Lady Imeyne due to her feigned EasyAmnesia.]]
** [[spoiler: turns out to have been inadvertently transported not to 1320, but to 1348 - the start of the '''Black Death.''']]
** [[spoiler: is forced to watch as an entire village, filled with people she's grown to know, succumbs one-by-one to plague, despite her very best efforts.]]
** [[spoiler: misses the rendezvous amidst all the chaos, leaving her to believe that she'll be stranded in the past.]]
** [[spoiler: resolves to take Rosemund, who has become the SoleSurvivor (along with Father Roche; more on that in a moment), to Scotland so that they might avoid the plague's further spread, only for Rosemund to die ''as Kivrin's speaking with her.'']]
** [[spoiler: discovers that Father Roche is dying of plague just as they prepare to leave, denying Kivrin even one chance to save somebody.]]
** [[spoiler: gets her ribs kicked in by a delirious Father Roche, leaving her in enough agony that she can't ring the bell to announce his passing as a DueToTheDead, let alone walk to the drop.]]
** And, as the final kick in the teeth, [[spoiler: ''she just barely manages to make it home.'' Were it not due to an incredible effort from the individuals of the present timeline, and an exceptionally unlikely set of circumstances, [[ShaggyDogStory Kivrin would have been left in the past, completely alone and unable to return to her friends and loved ones in the present]]]].
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* GeniusBonus - GeniusBonus: Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: [[spoiler:Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in 1348, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.]] There are plenty of others.
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* FridgeLogic: A major plot point or two hinges on the fact that in 2054 they don't have cell phones, voice mail, call waiting, or answering machines.
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* GeniusBonus - Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: [[spoiler:Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in 1348, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.]] There are plenty of
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* GeniusBonus - Willis has lots of historical and religious allusion in her story. Just one example: [[spoiler:Roche believes Kivrin is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Alexandria St. Catherine]], a saint whose symbol is a wheel. When Kivrin arrives in 1348, she is sitting against the wheel of a broken cart.]] There are plenty of others.others.
* FridgeLogic: A major plot point or two hinges on the fact that in 2054 they don't have cell phones, voice mail, call waiting, or answering machines.
* FridgeLogic: A major plot point or two hinges on the fact that in 2054 they don't have cell phones, voice mail, call waiting, or answering machines.
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