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Well Jean, if you're referring to my post, didn't he have a choice to pull the trigger and kill his Mom? or am I forgetting something? I guess I am due for a re-read, but I lent my reader copy books...

but it wasn't like he chose this, was it?

yes, bears like it, too - it fits well with their belief that Roland, being a key figure in the multiverse, lives in accordance with specific laws.

Nikolett didn't create her hand as a separate being, endowed with immortal soul and the gift of free will... if she had, I think she would have denied herself the possibility to use it.

Yes, this, too: Roland is repeatedly labeled deeply romantic, and his romance with the Tower fits the above quotation, I think.

On the other hand, the "loveless mistake for love" part makes me...

You haven't - at least, not mine. Although I suppose that Jesus himself is infinitely more than just a "mortal champion", I have always suspected Roland's strong kinship with RCatholic saints, such...

Why not? We know for sure how old everyone was in Roland's recollections, and we know that they did have celebrations; why not birthdays? Especially in a traditional society where coming of this or...

wait, wait! the "maybe" in that last sentence is crucial. I firmly believe that he does die, or else he is not even human, and that would kill the story for me - anyway, I don't see him having...

yes, I am inclined to feel the same - at least about Roland - despite all previous reasoning. But, then again, the question of what happens to the traveling person when new lines are created is still...

but going back to the past doesn't change one's memories of the past. See, you go to yesterday and don't have the breakfast you actually had in line 1; it creates line 2 where you didn't have it, but...

As we once agreed with Matt, the only way to imagine time-travel - or time-loop - possible and free of at least the basic paradox is to assume that every time someone goes back, he creates a new...

And did you get an answer then? :)[/QUOTE]

Much the same as what we can see here. Finally, I found solace in idle speculations, as bears often do.

candy: highlight the text you want to be...

Bears love everyone who has ever asked this question! How Old Is Roland was the first thread I started at .net... memories......

Was or wasn't, the principle remains the same: sacrificing someone other that oneself.

Childe Roland was obvious right away, as well as La Chanson de Roland, Charlemagne and his knights and all that; there was no surprise here.

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I mean those children and teenager who would let others die to begin with - not all children/teenagers. My main point was that their grounds for that would be different.

I would differ between a child and a teenager. A child would let anybody die because he doesn't know what death is, and isn't really sure anyone but himself is alive. A teenager would let anybody die...

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I won't vote now, have to think some time... my first impulse is to say "never"