Chapter 14, Just Like The Ones We Used To Know, Christmas Day

[rthstewart]

Finally, I get Chapter 14 up, after a detour to something hinted at in Under Cover.

There actually isn't that much research that I haven't already discussed before.

The King's Speech took some research to find and while it's quite the info dump, I just didn't feel right editing it.  The part in the House of Russell was in my previous Christmas story but edited slightly to fit better within TSG. 

I did have fun with Susan's fashions and spent a lot of time here looking at the pictures of French fashion from the 1930s.  I imagine Susan wearing something like this:



Source:  HPrints  Also at this stte, you can see pictures of the sort of lovely things that First Officer Pole has in  her attic. 

Oh, I dropped the hint that Michael Pole is with the RAF Photo Reconnaissance Unit flying out of RAF Benson in Oxfordshire.

Edmund's musing on the Leipzig War Crimes tribunals come from various sources and while generally reviled as a failure were also precedent-setting.  My particular spin on it comes from Telford Taylor's The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials.  You can read the basics in the wiki entry.

  This page has good information about the context of Foreign Secretary Eden's statement to the House of Commons on December 17, 1942 regarding what would eventually be called the Holocaust.

Thanks to adaese, Doctor Dolly, anastigmatfic, h_dash_h and felipemarcusthomas who have been invaluable as I juggled with the different interactions. 

That's all.  Thanks so much for reading.  I'm now at the point where I can really turn to the NBB.  First check in is in a week and I've not started, so here's hoping I can pull it off.  And that's all for now.  I do hope I hear from folks.  I was two days late posting this.  I promised Christmas Day, but I felt I disappointed by using the King's Christmas Message and the repeat of the Russell House part, so I wrote the Under Cover tie in.  Writing that segment took a little time. 

Comments

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much!! I'm glad you liked the chapter. I was worried the part with the locksmith was boring. I'd had the parts with Susan and her mother and Lucy and Eustace written for a LONG time and it just seemed thin.

The 1932 isn't a misprint. In my notes I'm referring to the first Christmas Message which was in 1932 when George V spoke. The current monarch in 1942, George VI, made his first message in 1937 and delivered his famous speech covered in the film The King's Speech in 1939 with the poem, "God Knows" that begins,
"And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”
And he replied:
“Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.”
So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night. And He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.
I was trying to use that quote but then decided not to do so as it wasn't the direction I wanted to go.
I had no idea about the Casablanca quote! I liked the blue and gray. I had another one I was going to use and I've badly wanted to use the film, but it only was released in the US in December 1942 and I could not figure out how it could possibly be in the UK by then.

Thank you again so much. Good luck with your NBB! I hope it goes well!!! I've GOT to work on mine!

[varnafinde.livejournal.com]

I see about 1932 - I guess I got the Kings mixed up!

There have been two translations of CoN into French, and the first version of SC, from 1992, was called Le Voyage de la “Belle Aventure” - at least that's what the site where I found it says now, although I'm sure it used to say la “Belle Aurore”.

So maybe I'm mixing it up with the current title, from a new translation with a different publisher, from 2002:
L'Odyssée du passeur d'aurore.
http://eq5.net/baynes/xl-n-sett/fr5vdt_l.html
The Aurore is there anyway!

My NBB is on hiatus - I need to learn a lot more about story-telling before I can finish it. I've suggested to my beta-reader that we spend more time on it and post it on ff.net eventually (without a deadline), and she thinks it's a good idea. Currently she's helping me with my Secret Santa submission. She really is a great help.

Best of luck with working on your NBB!

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Thanks again and I'm sorry we won't be seeing your NBB yet, but I know you had a huge idea in the making. So, best to take your time and do it the way you want it!! Happy New Year!