magwich
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.syd.iprimus.net.au)
Date: March 08, 2003 01:47PM
Has anyone else been pondering why Miss Haversham waited until Thursday arrived to go plug the hole in the plot where Magwich needs to escape in irons from the hulk?
Perhaps it is convenient in the plot for Thursday, but for so capable a character as Haversham she surely could have sorted this out without Thursday or the say so of the bellman.
Perhaps it is the existence of jurisfiction and each book as alternative universes that means that everything is occurring simultaneously, which would mean everything (including Thursday's expected entry as a child) is not delayed after all in any real sense for jurisfiction operatives or book characters.
Perhaps Havisham was so unhappy about helping a man, that she had seen the problem but didn't want to do it.
I think these books are wonderful for getting the thoughts ticking over. Thankyou Mr. Fforde!