ACCORDED NEUTRAL GROUND

[peregrine]

Maybe he has two different signs.

But most likely, Jim just keeps forgetting which one is which.

[Rasins]

Yeah, Mac picks up the sign and hangs it back up on the wall after the fight with He Who Walks Before, but it's all messed up and charred to hell.

But it switches in Dead Beat to "Territory," then back to "Ground" in Proven Guilty.

Oh, I missed that.

Lends more credence to my theory about each book being a different "version" of Harry in a different Mirror Mirror type universe with just little differences.

[Talby16]

By itself not major proof of anything. Could just be author inconsistency. However, it is one more piece of evidence on the timeline/reality side of the argument.

[Rasins]

By itself not major proof of anything. Could just be author inconsistency. However, it is one more piece of evidence on the timeline/reality side of the argument.

I'm firmly on the different realities explanation.  At least redacting it for Jim. 

[Cozarkian]

If it was different in just one book or changed once I could see it as evidence of time travel changes, but with the flip - flopping it strikes me as just a minor detail that was overlooked during editing.

[Rasins]

If it was different in just one book or changed once I could see it as evidence of time travel changes, but with the flip - flopping it strikes me as just a minor detail that was overlooked during editing.

Noooooooo .... It can't be.

[wardenferry419]

Occam's razor.

[Rasins]

Personally I think it was a Jim oops.  But he's all but said that all of his "oops"-es will be explained, maybe by Harry being a poor narrator.

[Talby16]

In Peace Talks Harry will probably walk into the bar, notice the sign says Territory instead of Ground, and mention something to Mac along the lines of "Did this sign switch words?" To which Mac will only shrug and grunt while serving Harry a steak sandwich.

[Rasins]

In Peace Talks Harry will probably walk into the bar, notice the sign says Territory instead of Ground, and mention something to Mac along the lines of "Did this sign switch words?" To which Mac will only shrug and grunt while serving Harry a steak sandwich.

Oh, I'd love Harry to walk into Mac's at the beginning of Mirror and see Ground, then walk in while he's over there, and see Territory.

[wardenferry419]

In Peace Talks Harry will probably walk into the bar, notice the sign says Territory instead of Ground, and mention something to Mac along the lines of "Did this sign switch words?" To which Mac will only shrug and grunt while serving Harry a steak sandwich.

I like this. It sums up Mac so well.

[Talby16]

And since it is Mac chief Brewmancer and King of the Steak Sandwich... Harry will accept the grunt and ask no further questions.

[raidem]

Actually, one time Mac tastes the brew finds it's a bit off and ends up looking at the sign.  I'll have to go find out when that was.

[Rasins]

Actually, one time Mac tastes the brew finds it's a bit off and ends up looking at the sign.  I'll have to go find out when that was.

You know, that does ring a distant bell ... please do find it.

[Kindler]

On a related topic to Mac: in his speech in Changes about Harry being tested when he finds out that he has a daughter, does it seem to anyone else that Mac is speaking from experience?