Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-62.47.6.95-20130609205603/@comment-4839682-20131126234735

GothicNarcissus wrote: Utter solitude wrote: Since Sidney is free, his lamp may be basically useless. I don't find it too odd that there would be another similar/identical lamp. It wouldn't be if they didn't specificly say " the three Genies". I'm not a native speaker, but if I remember correctly, the determinate article preceding a numeral adjective specifies there are only said number of said thing. No, you're misunderstanding me: I'm suggesting that, since Sidney is no longer captive, HIS bottle is useless, and he may have been replaced by another genie, assuming he was one of "the" three genies. This genie may have an identical bottle.

Or there's thousands of genies, and they just need a particular three... XD