Chapter 17, TQSiT

[rthstewart]

It's up.  Moles in the Garden, Part 1.  I tried really hard to get another update in February -- it's been slightly more than 2 weeks.  So...
Once again, we are not in Susan's point of view, and in fact, it's not in America at all.  As happened at the end of Part 1, it's both looking back, and beginning to set the stage for the next part, Part 3.  It's the night that TQSiT began, when Peter arrives to see Eustace, Lucy, and Edmund, the evening of their return from the Dawn Treader, so the barriers between Spare Oom and Narnia are rather "porous" -- though of course a thematic element of TQSiT is that the two worlds are not so separate after all. 

So, that's that.  Thanks so very, very much.  And why did it never occur to me before that Neverland and Narnia both begin with the letter N.

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the review and all. For some reason, I think there's another cat in Wonderland... need to look at it again. I had not really thought there was that much in the chapter -- I know I was setting some things up, like the staff, the flues, the return of the plaster blocks, and so on. And yes, two big revelations, but I'm... well, surprised at the reaction to this chapter, I guess. But, I'm always surprised and am a terrible judge of what I write. Oh and yeah, there's the whole seduction thing going on with Polly and the gin and Kwong Lee manipulating the whole situation.

[(Anonymous)]

Not in Wonderland, I think, but possibly in Looking Glass. Unless you count Alice's own cat(s) which only appear in the frame.

Oh, the flues! I was thinking about those - an interesting construction! Much potential for eavesdropping intentional and otherwise.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Oh, Alice does have the cat with kittens, as I recall! Certainly the cat comes into play in Looking Glass (I think). Oh yes, the flues. There are parts of this story from Part 3 that have been in my head for well over a year now -- the flues are one of them.

[lady_songsmith]

Er, that was me, forgetting that I'm not automatically logged in at work.