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So yeah, they were actually even more faithful with the scene than I originally thought. The bit about how Salim had already checked out and his guest needs to leave always made me believe it was a body-swap though. I ended up checking both the original and author's preferred texts trying to see if the difference came from there, but it didn't Now I really want to know where that whole mirror thing I had in my head was coming from, damnit!
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When Salim wakes, the cold sun creeping into the white room, he is alone.
Also, he discovers, his sample case is gone, all the bottles and rings and souvenir copper flashlights, all gone, along with his suitcase, his wallet, his passport, and his air tickets back to Oman.
He finds a pair of jeans, the T-shirt, and the dust-colored woolen sweater discarded on the floor. Beneath them he finds a driver's license in the name of Ibrahim bin Irem, a taxi permit in the same name, and a ring of keys with an address written on a piece of paper attached to them in english. The photo graphs on the license and the permit ID do not look much like Salim, but then, they did not look much like the ifrit.
The telephone rings: it is the front desk caling to point out that Salim has already checked out, and his guest needs to leave soon so that they can service the room, to get it ready for another occupant.
"I do not grant wishes," says Salim, tasting the way the words shape themselves in his mouth.
He feels strangely light-headed as he dresses.
New York is very simple: the avenues run north to south, the streets run west to east. How hard can it be? he asks himself.
He tosses the car keys into the air and catches them. Then he puts on the black plastic sunglasses he found in the pockets, and leaves the hotel room to go and look for his cab.
Also, he discovers, his sample case is gone, all the bottles and rings and souvenir copper flashlights, all gone, along with his suitcase, his wallet, his passport, and his air tickets back to Oman.
He finds a pair of jeans, the T-shirt, and the dust-colored woolen sweater discarded on the floor. Beneath them he finds a driver's license in the name of Ibrahim bin Irem, a taxi permit in the same name, and a ring of keys with an address written on a piece of paper attached to them in english. The photo graphs on the license and the permit ID do not look much like Salim, but then, they did not look much like the ifrit.
The telephone rings: it is the front desk caling to point out that Salim has already checked out, and his guest needs to leave soon so that they can service the room, to get it ready for another occupant.
"I do not grant wishes," says Salim, tasting the way the words shape themselves in his mouth.
He feels strangely light-headed as he dresses.
New York is very simple: the avenues run north to south, the streets run west to east. How hard can it be? he asks himself.
He tosses the car keys into the air and catches them. Then he puts on the black plastic sunglasses he found in the pockets, and leaves the hotel room to go and look for his cab.
So yeah, they were actually even more faithful with the scene than I originally thought. The bit about how Salim had already checked out and his guest needs to leave always made me believe it was a body-swap though. I ended up checking both the original and author's preferred texts trying to see if the difference came from there, but it didn't Now I really want to know where that whole mirror thing I had in my head was coming from, damnit!
Also a question for you PG:
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I'm assuming from how they've rearranged the timing of a couple of different events that the one that killed Shadow's attackers at the end of that first episode was un-dead Laura. It seems like they merged the beating he was supposed to take from the Technical Boy's goons with the encounter when she slaughters Mr. Stone and Mr. Wood and a bunch of their goons after they capture Shadow after the bank robbery, thus when Media speaks to him in the store, Laura had already massacred a group of people to protect Shadow. What are your thoughts on this?
