The philosophy surrounding the anomalies at MHICE doesn't quite mesh with the quantum discoherence of ATMW, as it throws in value judgments, and a mechanism by which the multiverse becomes not only more coherent but in small ways better than it was.
In this way the infinite number of infinite universes is resolved - it being impossible to reduce it, into the multiverse where the blade of the wind turbine does not chop the bird out of the sky, where the juggernaut misses the hedgehog, and so on.
A much better quality of multiverse with better interactivity all round. Some call these things coincidences - which is of course what they are.
Though when Grant appeared at the MHICE and began to benefit from the benign influences of the place, he must have fallen through into another version of events or faded away completely. Doubtless features of the MHICE reality can interact with other similar realities on a literary level, in which the Grant character is a constant, because better interactivity means just that.
Having created the alternative reality where Madam Director Pleater avoids the accident that damages her knee, so freeing her from difficulty walking, that variation must also be removed from a significant number of other universes, including this one I'm in at the moment. The one where I just had a trampoline delivered.
It could be proposed that somewhere bad things do not happen is going to be utterly boring, but boring is 'not a good thing' most of the time so it does not happen as often in the multiverse as in the discontinuous universes.
Hmm as I own and wear both a black kilt and a white - or at least natural cotton colour Tilley hat - this might indicate that somewhere I have a dark side. Let's hope it isn't thinking of trying to encourage Mister Dove to write faster or more frequently.
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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