Reading: - Helena created a ladder, why couldn't Clare do the same thing? Less weight than a rope ladder, which they discussed before. - yeah, I don't get the ladder if a chamber pot is going to add weight. -"Piss out a porthole!" he said, collapsing back in the chair Nicholas had brought down for him. Clare threw it onboard, --> Almost sounds like the chair is being thrown onboard. - How does Jack know how to navigate by the stars? Ellis has mentioned knowing how before in terms of prepping for the voyage, but why would Jack have learned? - "they would arrive within Jack's generous" --> They would arrive in Australia within? - "The maps aren't out." --> that sounds like, "The stars aren't out." Why would they have taken the maps out? - ""Punishment for my sins," Ellis observed in Clare's ear. / "Well-deserved, I'm sure," she said./"I certainly did enjoy them to their fullest at the time -- "" --> I first read this as he enjoys his punishment, and was confused. - The letter is wonderful after this line "William LaRoche had fled to England in the middle of the night in a craft that should never have stayed afloat, let alone carried him all the way to Great Britain." - I love this part. (Pyramids story) - "Since then, no Creationist who has ever heard of the Battle of the Pyramids has found it in themselves to enter into a war as a soldier." --> Always gives me chills.
Thoughts: - Beautiful as always.
Meta: - The water bucket has always been my suspension of disbelief. I'd love to see it explained further, though. - I like the letter where it is because it so nicely references the line in the discussion, and I think that would get lost otherwise. My $.02 :)
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Date: 2012-05-20 01:42 am (UTC)- Helena created a ladder, why couldn't Clare do the same thing? Less weight than a rope ladder, which they discussed before.
- yeah, I don't get the ladder if a chamber pot is going to add weight.
-"Piss out a porthole!" he said, collapsing back in the chair Nicholas had brought down for him. Clare threw it onboard, --> Almost sounds like the chair is being thrown onboard.
- How does Jack know how to navigate by the stars? Ellis has mentioned knowing how before in terms of prepping for the voyage, but why would Jack have learned?
- "they would arrive within Jack's generous" --> They would arrive in Australia within?
- "The maps aren't out." --> that sounds like, "The stars aren't out." Why would they have taken the maps out?
- ""Punishment for my sins," Ellis observed in Clare's ear. / "Well-deserved, I'm sure," she said./"I certainly did enjoy them to their fullest at the time -- "" --> I first read this as he enjoys his punishment, and was confused.
- The letter is wonderful after this line "William LaRoche had fled to England in the middle of the night in a craft that should never have stayed afloat, let alone carried him all the way to Great Britain."
- I love this part. (Pyramids story)
- "Since then, no Creationist who has ever heard of the Battle of the Pyramids has found it in themselves to enter into a war as a soldier." --> Always gives me chills.
Thoughts:
- Beautiful as always.
Meta:
- The water bucket has always been my suspension of disbelief. I'd love to see it explained further, though.
- I like the letter where it is because it so nicely references the line in the discussion, and I think that would get lost otherwise. My $.02 :)