*spoiler alert*
What I meant was, the cards are made of Solomonic gold, which was used to resuscitate Newton and Waterhouse in the Baroque Cycle, and, apparently, Enoch Root in Crypto.
Since it has the power to re-animate dead people, I'm kind of curious whether Randy Waterhouse or his descendants do anything interesting with it.
I think a sequel is a must. I'm about 4/5 through The System of the World, and it's been clear for a while that the gold perforated cards Randy Waterhouse finds at the end of Crypto are one and the same with the cards stamped for Russia (and Solomon Kohan) in System.
Because Crypto ends with those damn cards, I for one wanna know wtf Randy does with them (Unless -- and this seems doubtful at this stage -- it's clearly implied before the end of System.)
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*spoiler alert* What I meant was, the cards are made of Solomonic gold, which was used to resuscitate Newton and Waterhouse in the Baroque Cycle, and, apparently, Enoch Root in Crypto. Since it has the power to re-animate dead people, I'm kind of curious whether Randy Waterhouse or his descendants do anything interesting with it.
*spoiler alert*
I think a sequel is a must. I'm about 4/5 through The System of the World, and it's been clear for a while that the gold perforated cards Randy Waterhouse finds at the end of Crypto are one and the same with the cards stamped for Russia (and Solomon Kohan) in System.
Because Crypto ends with those damn cards, I for one wanna know wtf Randy does with them (Unless -- and this seems doubtful at this stage -- it's clearly implied before the end of System.)