>First, congratulations on the new series. It's coming out great. Watch
>out
>for burn-out, though. :)

Paranoia about this haunts my every waking moment.

>Now, my question: Corwin used the phone booth to retrieve Dorothy.
>Does this mean that his transport medium is phones (and he can
>already use it), or has he turned every phone booth in the
>neghbourhood
>into emergency accesses to his lab? (pictures Corwin as Maxwell Smart
>and Dortothy as 99 ;) )

The latter. He disappears and reappears because the phone booth has an elevator in it, Get Smart style. Corwin doesn't actually know how to gate yet - when he does get it down, that will make visits to Earth considerably faster and easier, which is probably a sizeable incentive for him to get on the stick and figure it out. :)

I hadn't worked out just what he would be using for his endpoints; maybe I'll borrow your suggestion and make it telephones. That'd make him the ultimate phreak. :)

>Am I wrong, or did Corwin never tell Utena the name of her new sword?
>As far as I can tell, he was talking in Norse the only time he said
>it.

As another reader noted, it's a magic weapon, bound to her by blood. When it's bound, it becomes part of her; she knows its Name without having to be told because of that.

It was sloppy of me not to mention that, though.

>In "Holiday", we learn that Touga and Nanami would go on Akio's quest,
>with Nanami leaving the morning after the dinner. Touga then mentions
>that
>she left for a term abroad, and so would he (an "official excuse", I
>suppose).
>It was a week later that Saionji left the school.
>On the other side, Miki said in "New Year" that it was Nanami who
>found Saionji's abandoned tent. But Nanami should have been long gone
>by then. What gives?
>Mistake or plot point?

Technically, we call that a fuckup. But I'll wave my hands and go with Mephron's No-Prize-worthy explanation. :)

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