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

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

And why did it never occur to me before that Neverland and Narnia both begin with the letter N.

I'm afraid there's no time tonight for a great long, in-depth review, but let me just say that the above comment just about made my day.

[autumnia]

I blame you, rth, for my not going to bed earlier this evening. I had been prepared to log off when the story alert arrived in my inbox, and well, I simply cannot wait till tomorrow to read this.

So one hour and a somewhat long review later, I am done! Tomorrow, I will most likely find myself analyzing this latest chapter and trying not to mix it up with The Irregulars (up to chapter 3 now).

Loved, loved, loved the chapter! As for 'N' -- if only you could find a connection to 'Alice in Wonderland' as well!

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Will review tomorrow in full, but my past two hours spent being beat about the head by Qur'anic chronology theories have inspired more poetical effusions (God bless the Japanese and their wondrous poetry style):

Liquid golden eyes,
Summer and the smell of rain,
Hey, this cat can growl!

There were fragments of others but my mind is fading quickly from the realm of coherent thought, so, just a few quick things that I can't wait for my review to note, for fear of forgetting that I want to discuss them:
1. Neverland/Narnia, Peter Pan/Peter Pevensie - Pevensie as a more grown up Pan?
2. Smoking in Nirvana - the nature of heaven. (also, dragon's smoke is like Patel's cigarette - Narnia as heaven and mix of more common dreamworld with Asim's God-given dreaming)
3. Windows, doors, further down and further out.
4. Polly and Mary in the Library of fossils. Otherwise called - Just what stories of Richard are Polly telling to Mary?
5. Europeans' linear thinking vs eastern world - where does Narnia fall?
6. Oh, Richard.

[lady_songsmith]

*flailing and general incoherency* Full review tomorrow when I sort out what I want to say. For now, just a comment that I am seriously in love with your OCs, all of whom have so much depth to them. We've seen the Russell household for about two pages in total, maybe? And yet everyone has a major personality and a wealth of backstory.

Also I have a half-stirring desire to do a timeline of what's happening to who when for the sake of my own brain.

[varnafinde.livejournal.com]

There have been comments about 'Why didn't Lewis use Susan more, flesh her out more, use her possibilities more?'

I think the answer is 'Because he wasn't writing a novel, he was writing a fairytale.'

I love the opportunities that fanfiction gives for writing (and reading) the novel(s) behind the fairytale.

Yours is a great novel. Not a novel for children, not only because of some 'adult' moments, but also because it's about grown-ups and their mindsets. Never mind that the birth certificate of one of those grown-ups says that she's fifteen ...

[ilysia-039.livejournal.com]

Have read chapter.

Am amazed.

*flails in amazement*

This chapter is brilliant. I said it in the review and I'm saying it here and probably will say it at least ten times in every conversation I have with you from this point on, but, God. This is an Epic chapter, not so much because of what goes on physically but, um, spiritually. It makes me want to philosophize or go out into the desert to pray. Just... I love Asim so much. He's such a brilliant character.

Goodness, I'm such a fangirl for this story.

[min023.livejournal.com]

What a delightful chapter. It's lovely to see the return of the denizens of Russell Hall. Lots of nice connections all over the place, too. Love how you're now tying all of parts one and two together. Reviews are owed, so I'll leave them over at FF.net, rather than repeat myself here, and bore you senseless. Oh, and BTW, on then question of a timeline and dramatis personae, yes please!
: )