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

[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.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all your help! As you know, the dragon and the smoke came late to this chapter, so I'm glad you liked the change! As for the Library of Fossils, I'm not sure what you had in mind! I see the house as having sort of 3 floors, because well, I need 3 floors to work the way I want it to -- first floor with kitchen, dining room, library, ballroom, hall and most of them filled with giant blocks of plaster, bone, and rock, from Tendaguru and the Gobi (yes, this is back in chapter 2 of part 1!!). Second floor guest rooms, drawing room with big huge windows looking out on the lawns, with a back stair that connects to the family floor. Ahem, right, yeah. I sound like LARM here.
I definitely see Narnia falling outside the rigorous linear thinking of almost everyone -- you can see where it gets you when dealing with the mystery of Narnia in the Colonel's thought processes in the previous chapter. Thank you again, I could not have not managed it without you and Larm!
As for the stories Polly is telling Mary, well, whatever can be managed as Mary plies her with the gin. Refer to the Christmas story for likely effects and outcome.