Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4854965-20141030171631/@comment-4854965-20141101161508

I had a (brief) moment where I thought about if Blind Ivan was the author, since McGucket (in his memories) called him a visitor.

I don't think Ivan wrote the book, nor do I think he was born into the society. From what we've seen so far, there doesn't seem to be any importance with family in the order.

And another point (though not on Ivan) I thought about is about the machine under the mystery shack. In looking at McGucket's memories, it seemed as though weird stuff didn't start happening until the author came and worked on this machine (he was disturbed by the gnomes, but only after a few months after his initial memory wipe).

Captainkirk proposed that Bill was released in '82, which made me think about if the machine allowed Bill to have the ability to enter our reality (even if just in the dreamscapes)